Directed by: Chen Kaige
Scriptwriter: Reed/Li Bihua
Starring: Leslie Cheung/Zhang Fengyi/Gong Li/Ge You/Ying Da
Genre: Drama/Love
Language: Mandarin
Running time: 171 minutes / 155 minutes (US theatrical version)
Synopsis of Farewell My Concubine
Duan Xiaorou (Zhang Fengyi) and Cheng Die Yi (Zhang Guorong) is a pair of small brothers who grew up together, two people a performance, a decorative denier, has always cooperated seamlessly, especially a “Farewell My Concubine”, it is famous in the city, for this reason, two people agreed to co-perform a lifetime “Farewell My Concubine”. But two people of drama and the understanding of the relationship between life has the essence of different, a small building know that the play is not life, Cheng die yi is not a person play.
Section Xiaolou in think that when married a prostitute chrysanthemum fairy (Gong Li), resulting in cheng die Yi identified chrysanthemum fairy is a shameful third party, make section Xiaolou do a traitor, since then, three people around a “Farewell My Concubine” birth of love and hate war began to upgrade with the changes of The Times, the final tragedy.