Directed by Chen Kaige with a cast consisting of Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li, You Ge, Han Lei, Mingwei Ma, Zhi Yin, Dan Li, Fei Huang.

The movie presents itself with 171 minutes of an epic about two Peking opera stars that spans fifty years of Chinese history, exploring the relationship between life and art, power and performance, and how ( Read more... )