Movie: King Chau and Lady Yu

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Elliot Ngok Wah
岳華

Alan Yu Ga-Lun
Alan Yu Ga-Lun

Louis Fan Siu-Wong
Louis Fan Siu-Wong

Lee Yue-tin
Lee Yue-tin

Lee Man-Tai
Lee Man-Tai

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    霸王別姬

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    The story of Farewell to My Concubine is itself very dramatic. Lillian Lee is rumoured to have written the original screenplay in the late 1970s, which was made into a two-part television series on RTHK by Alex Law under the name King Chau and Lady Yu. Lee then adapted the story into a novel in 1985, which later inspired a feature film, scripted again by Lee and directed by Fifth Generation mainstay Chen Kaige, going on to become an international sensation that won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Foreign Film at the Golden Globe Awards among other accolades. What's more, the Peking opera of the same title featured prominently in the novel, the TV programme and the film was itself adapted from a Kun opera, which was in turn based on the historical chronicle Basic Annals of Xiang Yu, from Records of the Grand Historian.

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    1981-01-01

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