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Rouge(1987)
Status: Released
Date: 1987-12-05
73%
71 Votes
Time: 1h 36m
They loved across two generations and two different worlds.
Overview:
Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost returns to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself.
Languages: Cantonese.
Countries:
Hong Kong
ProductionCompanies: 
Golden Way Films Ltd.
Movie: Rouge
Top 10 Billed Cast
梅艷芳
Fleur
張國榮
Chan Chen-Pang
萬梓良
Yuen
朱寶意
Chor
溫碧霞
Shu-Hsien
譚倩紅
Chen-Pang's Mother
Chu Shui-Tong
Chen-Pang's Father
汪禹
Ho Hsi
劉家榮
Movie Director
惠英紅
Actress Portraying Ghost
Video Trailer Rouge
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Rouge 胭脂扣 Yin ji kau (1988) Trailer
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