The Phantom Lover (1995)

Original title

夜半歌聲

Directed by

Ronny Yu

Genre

drama, music, romance

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

14A

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A beautiful singer falls in love with a mysterious composer who hides his disfigured face behind a mask. Their doomed romance is torn apart by class differences and family opposition.

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What happens

The Phantom Lover (Chinese: 夜半歌聲) is a 1995 Hong Kong musical romantic drama film directed by Ronny Yu and starring Leslie Cheung and Jacklyn Wu. It is a remake of the 1937 film Song at Midnight. The film itself is loosely based on the real-life "Phantom Lover" Dan Cheung (known as such due to the ghostlike nature of the women he romanced) and is a loose adaptation of the classic Romeo and Juliet romance where love between two passionate lovers were ultimately doomed when parental opposition was the major obstacle. The main theme of the film was, however, a strong adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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