Directed by Stanley Kwan | Produced by Jackie Chan
Rouge, the 1987 Hong Kong movie, was a multi-award winning picture at the Eighth Annual Hong Kong Film Awards, taking Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Editing, Best Film Score, and Best Song.
The opening scenes are set in 1930s Hong Kong, where the courtesan Fleur (Anita Mui) and son of a wealthy family, Master Chen (Leslie Cheung) enter into a passionate affair. Forbidden to marry by his family, they form a suicide pact agreeing to meet in the afterlife and to be together for all eternity.
The action then moves to 1988, where the ghost of Fleur, arrives in modern day Hong Kong to place a missing persons ad in a newspaper to find Chen who has yet to join her...
Always a lament for lost love and an aesthetically beautiful study of its stars - two of Hong Kong's biggest names Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung - their real-life untimely deaths in 2003 lend the film an additional and inevitable poignancy today.
Rouge - The Trailer
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Anita Mui
10 October, 1963 - 30 December, 2003
Anita Mui Yim Fong was a superstar in Asia releasing a staggering 46 albums during her career.The singer was also a talented actress and starred in over 40 movies. Just five years old when she began singing in theatres, at 19 she won a talent contest and several years later had her first big hit with 'Homecoming'.
Her 1986 'Bad Girl' album is the biggest selling Cantonese language record ever in Hong Kong.
Anita died at the end of 2003 from cervical cancer less than two months after completing a sellout series of "farewell" concerts from 6 to 11 November, at the Hong Kong Colosseum.
Originally cast to appear in The House of Flying Daggers she withdrew from the film because of her failing health. Her role was not recast and the film is dedicated to her memory.
Anita Mui singing the title theme to Rouge
1987 Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards Show
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Leslie Cheung
12 September 1956 - 1 April 2003
Like Anita, Leslie Cheung was also a phenomenally successful pop star in Hong Kong, even nicknamed "The Elvis of Hong Kong" by Canadian critic, John Charles, releasing 90 albums in a career than spanned from 1977 - 2003.As an actor he starred in some of the best-known Hong Kong movies of the last decade, working with directors such as Kaige Chen, Kar Wai Wong, Hark Tsui and John Woo.
After battling with depression for many years, Leslie jumped from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong in 2003, leaving a suicide note that was found on his body.
A Selection of Leslie Cheung Best Movie Moments
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Reviews and critical acclaim for Rouge
- The Cultural Context of Rouge by Anthony Leong
- An essay analyzing the cultural context of Rouge, the 1987 Stanley Kwan film starring Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung.
- Rouge - DVD Review
- Dvd review of Rouge
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