Farewell My Concubine

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• Movie: Farewell My Concubine
• Chinese: 霸王别姬 (Ba wang bie ji)
• Director: Kaige Chen
• Writer: Kaige Chen, Lilian Lee (novel), Bik-Wa Lei, Wei Lu
• Producer:Hsu Feng
• Cinematographer: Gu Changwei
• Release Date: October 15, 1993
• Runtime: 171 min
• Language: Mandarin
• Country: China

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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

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• Leslie Cheung - Cheng Dieyi
• Fengyi Zhang - Duan Xiaolou
• Li Gong - Juxian
• Qi Lu - Master Guan
• Da Ying - Manager
• You Ge - Master Yuan
• Chun Li - Xiao Si (in his teens)
• Han Lei - Xiao Si (adult)
• Di Tong - Zhang the Eunuch
• Mingwei Ma - Douzi as a Child
• Yang Fei - Shitou as a Child
• Zhi Yin - Douzi as a Teenager
• Hailong Zhao - Shitou as a Teenager
• Dan Li - Laizi / Peking Opera schoolboy
• Wenli Jiang - Douzi's Mother
• Yitong Zhi - Aoki Saburo
• David Wu - Red Guard
• Qing Xu

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