Farewell My Concubine

霸王别姬 (1993)

Timing: 2:51 (171 min)

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Release date

1993-01-01

Country

China, Hong Kong

Production

China Film Co-Production Corporation, Beijing Film Studio, Tomson (Hong Kong) Films Co., Ltd.

Genre

Drama

Budget

$4 000 000

Revenue

$6 400 000

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Director

Chen Kaige

Actors

Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li, Lu Qi, Ying Da, Ge You, Lei Han, Yi Di, Yin Zhi, Ma Ming-Wei
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Scenario

Producer

Hsu Feng, Hsu Feng, Jun-Nian Tang, Sunday Sun, Pin Hsu

Operator

Gu Changwei

Composer

Jonathan Lee

Artist

Audition

Editing

Xiaonan Pei
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• The role played by Leslie Cheung was initially offered to John Lone.
• During filming, Leslie Cheung hardly spoke Northern Chinese (also known as Mandarin). He was even less capable of speaking with a Beijing accent, so all his lines were dubbed by Yang Lisheng (whose name is not listed in the credits).
• When Harvey Weinstein acquired the distribution rights to the film, he ordered 14 minutes of screen time to be cut. This version was shown in theaters in the United States and the United Kingdom. The full original version, lasting 171 minutes, was released on DVD.
• The role played by Zhang Fengyi was initially offered to Jackie Chan, but he declined to avoid damaging his own on-screen image (the film touches on the theme of homosexuality).