The Mad Phoenix (1997)

Original title

南海十三郎

Directed by

Clifton Ko

Cast

Gilbert Lam, Kenneth Chan, Eileen Tung, Chapman To, Kristal, Wong Mei, Bill Tung, Susan Tse

Genre

drama film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

IIA

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film tells the story of Kong Yu-Kau, a talented playwright for Cantonese opera in Hong Kong. It follows his rise to fame and later decline into mental illness and obscurity.

biographicalmelancholicreflectivetragicnostalgicpoeticslow-paced

What happens

The Mad Phoenix (Chinese: 南海十三郎) is a 1997 film written by Raymond To Kwok-Wai, based on a drama of the same title, which depicts the life of the legend Cantonese Opera playwright Kong Yu-Kau. The film won the 17th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Screenplay in 1998. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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