Director: Stanley Kwan
Cast: Anita Mui Yim-Fong, Leslie Cheung, Alex Man, Emily Chu Bo-Yee, Irene Wan,
Plot: 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.
Stanley Kwan’s Rouge (1987): Criterion Blu-ray review
Rouge (1987), Stanley Kwan’s meditation on romance, the passage of time and the imminent return of Hong Kong to China after almost two centuries of British colonial rule, gets a luminous restoration for Criterion’s new Blu-ray […]