The Dream of the Red Chamber (1977)

Original title

金玉良緣紅樓夢

Directed by

Li Han-hsiang

Genre

tragedy, drama film, musical film, romance film

Country

British Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 48m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man in a wealthy family falls in love with his delicate cousin. Their romance is stifled by family duty and social expectations in a world of beauty and sorrow.

romantictragicoperaticelegiacvisually stylizedemotionalcourtlypoetic

What happens

The Dream of the Red Chamber (Traditional Chinese: 金玉良緣紅樓夢; Simplified Chinese: 金玉良缘红楼梦) is a 1977 film adaptation of the 18th-Century Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin with the same name. It stars Brigitte Lin as protagonist Jia Baoyu, and Sylvia Chang as his cousin Lin Daiyu. The film is told in the style of Huangmei Opera, and follows the style's tradition of cross-gender acting, where a female actor portrays a male character. This is the second adaptation of the novel from the Shaw Brothers, the first being Dream of the Red Chamber (1963) starring Betty Loh Ti. The film was nominated for two categories at the 15th Golden Horse Awards, and won Best Art Direction. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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