Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li, Lü Qi, Ying Da, Ge You, Lei Han, Yi Di, Yin Zhi, Ma Mingwei, Zhao Hailong, Fei Zhenxiang, Yang Yong Chao, Huang Fei, Jiang Wenli
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
**An excellent film.** I was really curious to see this movie, because as far as I can remember it was the first Chinese movie I saw. Before I saw it, I read a little about it, and I was quite impressed to see how the film did well in the West, and managed to infuriate Chinese Communist censors. However, I fear that I was not fully prepared for what awaited me. In fact, the film is truly bru...