The Bund is a Hong Kong period crime drama television series first broadcast on TVB in 1980.

The theme song, which shares the same Chinese title as the series and was performed by Frances Yip, also became a memorable Cantopop hit.

Hui Man-keung, a Yenching University graduate who has served three years in prison for participating in the May Fourth Movement, decides to make a fresh start in Shanghai, where he meets and befriends Ting Lik, a fruit vendor.

Later, Hui discovers that Fung is collaborating with secret agents from the Japanese right-wing Black Dragon Society to destroy the Chin Woo School, a Chinese martial arts school committed to defending China from foreign aggression.

Eventually deciding to help the Chin Woo School, Hui kills a Japanese spy, Yamaguchi Kaoriko, in a gunfight.

Hui fakes his death to evade Fung's men and settles in Hong Kong, where he marries So Wong-tai, starts a new life with her family, and opens a small restaurant.

Hui, who has already been deeply affected by the loss of his family, only feels worse after seeing that his ex-lover is about to marry his best friend.

Ching-ching is unable to forgive Hui for killing her father and she leaves China for France.

The series eponymous theme song, The Bund (上海灘) was performed by Frances Yip.

Two scenes have subsequently been replicated and parodied in many films and television series in Hong Kong.

In 1996, The Bund was remade into the Hong Kong television series Once Upon a Time in Shanghai, starring Sunny Chan, Gordon Lam and Nadia Chan as the original characters, and Adam Cheng and Carol Cheng as new characters.

The plot of the 1996 Hong Kong film Shanghai Grand, directed by Poon Man-kit and produced by Tsui Hark,[4] is similar to that of The Bund.