Farewell my Concubine

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DVD release of the 1993 motion picture.
Based on the novel by Lilian Lee.
Rated R.
Special features include: director's cut, 2.0 Dolby surround, widescreen (1.85:1).
Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li.
Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.
DVD video ; stereo, Dolby digital.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Excellent submitted by yufamily on August 11, 2019, 1:17pm A touching story

I usually enjoy watching every movie from China, despite my almost total ignorance of Chinese. submitted by Tassos on April 17, 2021, 4:11pm This one was different. It was banned in China when it came out, for various reasons. I don't know how accurate the portrayal of the training of Chinese opera actors was in the movie, they seemed to get more beatings than Japanese soldiers during their training in the 30s and 40s, and those soldiers were beaten every day, savagely. I found the movie too long, I am still watching it and now it finally has advanced to the Japanese occupation, and there is probably lots of it left to watch.