Top billed cast

1. 

   Leslie Cheung

   Cheng Dieyi / Xiao Douzi

2. 

   Zhang Fengyi

   Duan Xiaolou / Xiao Shitou

3. 

   Gong Li

   Juxian

4. 

   Lü Qi

   Master Guan

5. 

   Ying Da

   Manager

6. 

   Ge You

   Master Yuan Shiqing

7. 

   Lei Han

   Xiao Si

8. 

   Tong Di

   Zhang the Eunuch

9. 

   Yin Zhi

   Teenage Douzi

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Reviews

A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on 2022-11-12

**An excellent film.**

I was really curious to see this movie, because as far as I can remember it was the first Chinese movie I saw. Before I saw it, I read a little about it, and I was quite impressed to see how the film did well in the West, and managed to infuriate Chinese Communist censors. However, I fear that I was not fully prepared for what awaited me.

In fact, the film is truly brutal, in every sense of the word. Director Kaige Chen took a well-known and respected book for his film, but put all the focus on an almost visceral realism. The film is an epic that spans a large peri...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Chinese

Budget
$4,000,000.00

Revenue
$6,400,000.00

Keywords

• china
• society
• transvestite
• cultural revolution
• woman between two men
• best friend
• beijing, china
• lgbt
• chinese opera
• female impersonator
• severed finger