The King of Masks
by Tian-Ming Wu
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Actor: Renying Zhou, Xu Zhu, Zhigang Zhang, Zhigang ZhaoDirector: Tian-Ming Wu
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Mandarin Chinese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Chinese (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-03-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent
Movie Reviews of The King of Masks
Movie Review: Absolutely Brilliant!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorite movies of all time.
It is about a Chinese man, an artist of mask-making. He creates beautiful and disturbing masks and then puts on a show for people using the masks as characters. He is recognized as a true king of an almost lost art in China. How he creates the masks and makes them seem alive is a mystery. He lives in relative poverty but is only wanting for one thing, a male heir to whom he can pass down the tradition of his art.
He decides to adopt a young male child to become his apprentice. He does this and the relationship between master and apprentice is explored. There are some life challenges, scenes of incredible closeness and amazing twists.
I give this film my very highest recommendation.
Summary of The King of Masks
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 TianmingThe 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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