Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 171 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China, Hong Kong SAR China
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- In Chinese — subtitles on.
The story
In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.
- china
- society
- transvestite
- cultural revolution
- woman between two men
- best friend
- beijing
- china
- lgbt
- chinese opera
- female impersonator
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Leslie Cheung
Cheng Dieyi / Xiao Douzi
Zhang Fengyi
Duan Xiaolou / Xiao Shitou
Gong Li
Juxian
Lü Qi
Master Guan
- Ying Da — Manager
- Ge You — Master Yuan Shiqing
- Lei Han — Xiao Si
- Tong Di — Zhang the Eunuch
- Yin Zhi — Teenage Douzi
- Ma Mingwei — Young Douzi
- Zhao Hailong — Teenage Shitou
- Fei Zhenxiang — Young Shitou
- Yang Yong Chao — Young Xiao Laizi
- Huang Fei — Old Master
- Jiang Wenli — Douzi's Mother
- Directed
- Chen Kaige
- Written
- Lu Wei, Lilian Lee Bik-Wah
Production
- Studio
- Beijing Film Studio, China Film Co-Production, Tomson (Hong Kong) Films Co., Ltd.
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
