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Farewell My Concubine

Cast

Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li, Jiang Wenli View All


Crew

Chen Kaige (Director), Lu Wei (Screenplay), Lilian Lee (Screenplay) View All

Release: Sep. 16th, 1993
Runtime: 2 hours, 51 minutes
Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled "Farewell My Concubine" that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian, Doutzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo's explosive breakup and tragic fall take root.
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Takoma11
Zhang has maybe the more challenging role as ****ou, who is far less extreme of a character than Douzi or Juxian, but still must embody a character with his own emotional depths.
Citizen Rules
I liked how the film showed the two men much later in life and foreshadowed the idea that there was much friction between them...Then flashes back to the beginning, to tell their intertwined stories starting at early childhood in the opera training school.


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