Sun Yat-sen's Nationalist party was up to run the country until one of his supporters, the immensely powerful general, Yuan Shi-kai, forced Sun Yat-sen to hand over control of the country since General Yuan controlled the army. The Qing Dynasty had been overthrown in 1912, and much-loved Dr.
The cruel morning after for millions of Chinese. Such an organic creature one doesn't know whether to call it a woman's movie, an action movie, a period film, a melodrama, a comedy, a musical, or a silent picture with sound? To be safe, consider it all of the above, plus more. Tsui Hark rolled all the movies he ever saw into a giant joint, hunched over in the corner away from the other kids huffing on it and then, eyes streaming, hair crazed, heart pounding double time, high on the fumes of the movies he loved, in one long fugue state he directed the most sustained burst of cinematic inspiration ever put on film. Because underneath all the hype it's a damn good movie. And not just kill it, but embalm, mummify, stuff, and bury it, turning it from a sprawling, living, breathing movie into a sniffy "world cinema classic". Probably the most revered movie in the Hong Kong canon, Peking Opera Blues has been held up as an exemplar of cinematic perfection enough times to kill it.
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