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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Miramax
EAN: 0786936190465
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Languages: Mandarin ChineseOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: DISD27131D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 02, 2002
Running Time: 130 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: June 13, 1997
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
It is the story of a man who belongs to a crime family with a specialty in blackmailing wealthy women. Passion and power collide when he seduces a beautiful woman from his past. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 10/14/2003 Starring: Gong Li Leslie Cheung Run time: 115 minutes Rating: R Director: Chen Kaige
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Chen Kaige, the director of Farewell My Concubine, returns with another sumptuous, if hard to follow, film about old China. Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues. Mostly, though, Temptress Moon is about beautiful images. The densely populated plot is basically an excuse for showing golden bells and bowls, pagoda roofs set against the moon, and richly woven carpets. More of a meditation than a movie, Temptress Moon is probably not as accessible or enjoyable as its critically acclaimed predecessor Farewell My Concubine, which may be a better place to start in the appreciation of contemporary Chinese cinema. --James DiGiovanna
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When you think of great Chinese films, you think of director Zhang Yimou, actress Gong Li and actor Leslie Cheung. Well Temptress Moon has two of the three, Gong and Cheung and fills in the third with Chen Kaige. Chen is a the director of Farewell, My Concubine. Like Zhang, Chen is a master of the visual sophistication. His use of color is exceptional.
The Pang family runs the opium trade from their country estates. The head of the clan has two children, the older son and the much ... Read More
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I bought the DVD from Singapore videoshops and have grabbed a copy and watched....hee hee....The story is about old chinese period where it involved the loving between the opposite party and the not loving situation where the actress finally get poisoned by opium and the actor killed by bad company he joined in shanghai after he left the old family style and wnt all the way to shanghai to study. There are a few scenes which are filmed in dark situation that show that the actress have sex. It is done ... Read More
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Definitely worth pining for! I decided to purchase Temptress Moon after viewing the breathtaking, and devastating, Farewell My Concubine. Both movies feature the amazing talents of Gong Li and Leslie Cheung. So total is their transformation between the two films, it's difficult to believe that these are the same actors. While Concubine served as a historical epic, Temptress Moon seemed more along the lines of Shakespearean tragedy. Like Kaige's previous work, the characters' frustrations signify larger ... Read More
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I must admit to being slightly disappointed in Temptress Moon. The film looks good. Gong-li always looks good. And the film does a good job showing the corruption in government and lifestyle that was the Nationalist Period. According to the film, The China of Chiang Kai-shek and the decadence of the period was not good for the people of China.
"Temptress Moon" has a lot of beautiful touches but essentially lacks a story. So much of this movie should have worked and just didn't. The premise ... Read More
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This is a domestic drama of the 1920s when China was fought over by warlords and Shanghai was a city ruled by fat-cat Western and Japanese interests and Chinese criminals. The chaos and split-personality of China at the time is captured by the film.
What you can say about this movie is that it was not directed by Zhang Yimou who did (if I'm not mistaken) Raise the Red Lantern and Ju Dou which were excellent movies. "Temptress Moon" is similar to Zhang's work. But Gong Li, the lead actress, ... Read More
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