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Director Chen Kaige
Writers Lilian Lee Bik-Wah, Lu Wei
Two Beijing opera performers grow up under harsh training and become celebrated stars, only to find their bond tested by love, identity, and shifting loyalties. As decades of upheaval sweep through 20th-century China, the line between their stage roles and real lives blurs in painful, lasting ways.