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- Rouge = Yan zhi kou [videorecording] / by Cheung, Leslie,1956-2003,actor.(CARDINAL)532557; Kwan, Stanley,1957-film director.; Li, Bihua,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)737302; Mei, Yanfang,actor.; Qiu Dai, Anping,1940-2013,screenwriter.; Wan, Ziliang,actor.; Zhu, Baoyi,actor.; Adaptation of (work):Li, Bihua.Yānzhī kòu.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269; Golden Harvest (Firm),production company.; Wei he dian ying zhi zuo you xian gong si,producition company.;
She ying Huang Zhongbiao ; yin yue Li Xiaotian ; mei shu Pu Ruomu, Ma Guangrong ; jian ji Zhang Yaozong.Mei Yanfang, Zhang Guorong, Wan Ziliang, Zhu Baoyi."Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong's Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (Alex Man Chi-leung and Emily Chu Bo-yee) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-scène and transcendentally melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history"--Container.DVD, NTSC, region A; wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby monaural.Hong Kong Film Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress (Anita Mui), Best Director (Stanley Kwan), 1989- Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Film adaptations.; Ghost films.; Man-woman relationships; Missing persons; Spirits;
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- Boat people [videorecording] / by Xu, Anhua,film director.; Kwan, Stanley,1957-film director.; Xia, Meng,1932-film producer.; Qiu, Gangjian,1940-2013,screenwriter.; Qiu Dai, Anping,1940-2013,screenwriter.; Lin, Zixiang(Singer),actor.; Ma, Season,actor.; Lau, Andy,1961-actor.; Miao, Cora,actor.; Luo, Yonghui,composer (expression); Chang, Justin,writer of supplementary textual content.; Nguyen, Vinh(Associate professor),writer of supplementary textual content.; Bluebird Movie Enterprises,production company.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269;
DVD one: Boat people; special features -- DVD two: Special features.Cinematography, Wong Chung-Gei ; music, Law Wing-Fai ; editor, Kin Kin.George Lam, Season Ma, Cora Miao, Andy Lau."One of the preeminent works of the Hong Kong New Wave, Boat People is a shattering look at the circumstances that drove hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees to flee their homeland in the wake of the Vietnam War, told through images of haunting, unforgettable power. Three years after the Communist takeover, a Japanese photojournalist (George Lam) travels to Vietnam to document the country's seemingly triumphant rebirth. When he befriends a teenage girl (Season Ma) and her destitute family, however, he begins to discover what the government doesn't want him to see: the brutal, often shocking reality of life in a country where political repression and poverty have forced many to resort to desperate measures in order to survive. Transcending polemic, renowned director Ann Hui takes a deeply humanistic approach to a harrowing and urgent subject with searing contemporary resonance"--ContainerMPAA rating: R.DVD; NTSC, region 1; wide screen (1.85:1), Dolby monaural.Title from container and disc surface.- Subjects: Historical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Families; Photojournalists; Refugees;
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