Peking Opera Blues
Time Out says
You need a fairly thorough-going grasp of the political and factional fall out from China's 1911 revolution to make sense of the plot (in which two undercover revolutionaries set out to foil warlord Yuan Shikai's plan to expand his territory), not to mention a working knowledge of traditional Peking Opera. Happily, the plot doesn't matter. The film is a speed-crazed riff on what happens when a spy melodrama meets a backstage comedy: Feydeau with blood at 150 beats per minute. Everyone in it is sparky (especially Brigitte Lin, in male drag for the first time), and most of the gags are pretty funny. But Tsui's kinetic dazzle is the main thing.
Details
Release details
Duration:
105 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Tsui Hark
Screenwriter:
To Kwok-wai
Cast:
Mark Cheng
Sally Yeh
Brigitte Lin
Wu Ma
Cherie Chung
Sally Yeh
Brigitte Lin
Wu Ma
Cherie Chung