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TIANXIA WUSHUANG |
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Hong Kong 2002, 35mm, 105 minutes, colour, Dolby SR, 1:1.85, 8100 feet (5 reels), Mandarin © Block 2 Pictures Inc. 2002
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Director
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Jeff Lau
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Associate Producers
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Chan Wai-Chung
Law Hing-Man
Zhong Zheng
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Executive Producers
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Chan Wai-Chung
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Producers
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Wong Kar-Wai, Jacky Pang, Zhuo Wu
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Executive Producers
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Zhu Yong De
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Screenplay
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Ji Lan
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Cinematography
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Ngor Chi-Kwan
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Production Design
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Tony Au
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Editor
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Wong Wing-ming
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Music
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Frankie Chan, Tao Yi-Mo, Roel A. Garcia
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Costumes
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William Chang Suk-ping
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Production Company
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Jet Tone Productions
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Tony Leung Chiu Wai
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Li Yilong
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Faye Wong
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Princess Wushuang
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Vicky Zhao Wei
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Phoenix
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Chang Chen
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Emperor Zheng De
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Rebecca Pan
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Queen Mother
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Athena Chu Yan
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Amour Amour
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In Ming Dynasty China, two pairs of siblings are destined for each other. But fate throws countless obstacles in the path of their happiness. One pair is high-born: the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang, both confined to the Imperial Palace and very much under the thumb of their mother, the Empress Dowager. The other pair is decidedly lowborn: the wanderer Li Yilong (known as King Bully for the way he terrorized the town of Meilong in his youth) and his sister Phoenix, who still runs a restaurant in Meilong.
When both the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang contrive to leave the Palace and head south, they meet the loves of their lives in Meilong. But Wushuang has disguised herself as a man, and the Emperor is incognito. Numerous confusions, complications and misunderstandings ensue: genders and gender-roles are reversed, class differences prove hard to negotiate and identities and egos block the promptings of desire. It takes the interventions of a goddess to get everyone back on the right road. But it may be already too late to heal the wounds of disappointment and separation.
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