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Farewell My Concubine

Country: China, Language: Chinese, 171 mins

Original Title

Ba wang bie ji
  • Director: Kaige Chen
  • Writer: Lillian Lee
  • Producer: Bin Hsu; Feng Hsu

CGiii Comment

Harsh discipline, entrenched tradition, dedicated devotion and a meddling, manipulative woman.

Stories don't come much better than this - an emotional rollercoaster ride.

Done to perfection.


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The(ir) Blurb...

"Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame.

Cast & Characters

Leslie Cheung as Cheng Dieyi;
Fengyi Zhang as Duan Xiaolou;
Li Gong as Juxian; Qi Li as Master Guan;
Da Ying as Manager;
You Ge as Master Yuan;
Chun Li as Xiao Si;
Han Lei as Xiao Si;
Di Tong as Zhang the Eunuch;
Mingwei Ma as Douzi as a Child;
Yang Fei as Shitou as a Child;
Zhi Yin as Douzi as a Teenager;
Hailong Zhao as Shitou as a Teenager;
Dan Li as Laizi / Peking Opera schoolboy;
Wenli Jiang as Douzi's Mother