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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767847377
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0767847377
Label: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 07, 2000
Running Time: 101 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 1999
Sales Rank: 9640
MPN: COLD04741D
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Set in the streets of 1930s sichuan the king of masks tells the epic tale of a rare master of an ancient art in search of an heir to inherit the age old secrets of his trade. Special features: subtitles in english spanish and french production notes theatrical trailer and digitally mastered audio & video. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/24/2008 Starring: Chu Yuk Chao Yim Yin Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Wu Tianming
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The King of Masks tells a tale steeped in ancient tradition, simultaneously challenging the sociosexual inequity still plaguing China today. On the streets of Szechuan Province in the 1930s, the aged King of Masks, sole living master of "change-face" opera, delights and frightens audiences with the secret art of lightning-quick mask-shifting. His fondest wish is to pass on his skill to a male heir before he dies. Famous female impersonator Liang Sao Lang craves knowledge of the king's secret technique, offering to relieve the old man's poverty by taking him into his opera troupe. The king declines: what sort of heir would this half-female creature make? Instead, he buys an orphan on the black market, joyously showing him off as his grandson and heir. But soon the child is forced to disclose a dreaded secret--one that effectively renders him a person of no value according to Chinese custom. In the king's eyes, the kid goes from "beloved grandson" to "stupid crook," and both the old man and the child must pay dearly for his bigotry before they can know joy again. A deeply moving film, simply told and superbly acted. --Laura Mirsky
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It's a touching story of an elderly man who overcomes the misogynistic prejudices of his society.
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An excellent film that makes a signficant yet non-polemic statement about societal attitudes about human worth being based on gender. Although obviously more extreme and blatant in China, the cultural base of the West that prefers the voice and opinions of the male has residual consequences that make moments of this film as poignant for a Western audience. Even if a viewer ignores the gender politics (and doesn't notice the thematic similarity to "Whale Rider") the film is worth seeing, especially ... Read More
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Maybe I'm exaggerating after just seeing this movie, but the girl actor gave one of the greatest acting performance I've seen. On par with Deniro and Al Pacino.
It's ... incredible. Every emotion and movement is spot on. I could literally feel her apprehension, terror, hunger, guilt and remorse. I could sense what she was thinking.
Before people get bent out of shape about the child black market, you have to realize that civil war and flooding can put many poor families on the ... Read More
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Story telling at it's finest. Gut wrenching - the pull and push of love between two people that through destiny are bound together like shoelaces. Wonderful characters. Loved it. Recommend it.
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THE KING OF MASKS is the story of Wang Bianlian, an aging street performer, who is a master of the art of rapidly changing face masks (figure out how he does it) and has no heirs to pass on his art. In 1930's China, only males are deemed worthy of this inheritance and Wang has none (you learn why later in the film). He lives in poverty on his houseboat traveling from city to city in Sichuan along the river. He is proud of the fact he has never asked for money but always supported himself. A famous female ... Read More
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767847377
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0767847377
Label: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 07, 2000
Running Time: 101 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 1999
Sales Rank: 9640
MPN: COLD04741D
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