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Availability: On Order - This item is temporarily out of stock, and will ship as soon as we receive more (usually within 4-7 business days.). You may cancel or check on backordered item(s) at any time via your account. Director: Chen Kaige Producer: Hsu Feng Released: 1996 [China] Genre: Romance Keywords:  Drugs || Epic || Family / Siblings || Gangs / Gangsters || Historical || Love || Maid / Servant / Janitor || Modernization || Music / Musician / Singer || Nightclub || Tradition

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HKFlix Says:	Visually attractive, well-acted and intricately plotted drama about love and life in a 1920s-era modernizing China. Still banned in China for its explicit depiction of sex and drugs.
Avg. Rating:	3.5 / 5 (based on 2 ratings). What did you think of it?
Plot:	The captivating story of a beautiful young woman, her seductive lover and their struggle for power, passion, and revenge--so shocking it was banned in the director's own country! Highly provocative and filled with unforgettable sensual imagery.
Overview:	A lush, lyrical parable about the modernization of China, TEMPTRESS MOON is the story of Zhongliang (Leslie Cheung), a Shanghai gangster raised on the sumptuous rural estate of the powerful, opium-addled Pang family. As a boy, Zhongliang, promised the life of a student, becomes instead a servant for his sister and her drug-addicted husband and a playmate for Ruyi (Gong Li), the female heir to the Pang dynasty. A permanent outsider, Zhongliang escapes the painful decadence of the Pang household and becomes a smooth-talking mobster, seducing women in the jazz-saturated clubs of 1920s Shanghai, but he is forced to face his past when hired to seduce and abduct Ruyi in a criminal attempt to gain control over the now vulnerable Pang estate. What begins as a routine seduction becomes more complicated when Zhongliang finds himself unable to escape his true feelings for Ruyi and crippling memories of his painful childhood. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle revels in the eclectic visual spectacle of a tradition-bound China cracking and hatching its version of the jazz age. Li and Cheung turn in inspired performances, their palpable onscreen chemistry igniting director Chen Kaige's magnificently detailed historical epic.
Cast:	Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing  ||  Gong Li  ||  Lam Gin Wa  ||  Hoh Choi Fei  ||  Yam Lui  ||  Lam Lin Gwan  ||  Got Heung Ting  ||  Chow Git  ||  Che Tim (Click any actor to search for more of their movies!)
Running Time:	127 mins. (approx.)
Languages:	Mandarin (Dolby Digital)
Subtitles:	ENGLISH, Spanish
Distributor:	Miramax  [A USA-Based Distributor]
Rating:	IIB - "Adult Material; Parental Guidance Recommended" (roughly equal to an MPPA rating of "R") Films rated Category IIB contain large amounts of violence and/or nudity and sexual situations in addition to possible explicit language and adult situations.
Features:	Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Trailers