A CHINESE GHOST STORY TRILOGY (1987-1991) - New on Blu-ray - Hong Kong Cinema Classics #14-16

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Product Description: A Chinese Ghost Story - A hapless tax collector takes shelter at an abandoned temple, the favorite haunting grounds of a 1000 year old adrogynous tree demon. Beset with perilous traps and temptations by deadly but seductive she-devils, the bumbling hero falls in love with a beautiful ghost, whose spirit is enslaved by the tree demon. The two lovers risk their eternal souls to escape the demon's wrath, searching for happiness together.

A Chinese Ghost Story II - Ning, the naive young tax collector of A Chinese Ghost Story, escapes from prison and seeks refuge in the Righteous Villa, a decaying mansion where he encounters two beautiful sisters and their father, who faces execution for attempting to expose traitors at the imperial court.

A Chinese Ghost Story III - After having slept for a century, the Tree Devil, awakens to terrorize a wise High Priest and his student, who have happened upon the Orchid Temple.

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New on Blu-ray & 4K: FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (1993) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: A breathtakingly intimate romance unfolds against a sweeping backdrop of social upheaval in renowned director Chen Kaige’s sumptuous saga of passion, fate, and the transcendent possibilities of art. Spanning fifty years of twentieth-century Chinese history, Farewell My Concubine follows aspiring actors Cheng Dieyi (a heartbreaking Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) as they emerge from a childhood of brutal training to become Beijing-opera stars, with life mirroring art as Dieyi’s unrequited love for Xiaolou and the country’s changing political tides engulf them in their own personal tragedies of jealousy and betrayal. The first Chinese film to win the Palme d’Or is epic filmmaking of the highest order—visually and emotionally ravishing from frame to exquisite frame.

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DVD & Blu-ray: ROGUE (1987) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: Stanley Kwan, the melodrama master of Hong Kong cinema, weaves a sensuous ghost story into his heartbreaking elegy for lost love Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung display the androgynous magnetism that made them icons as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong.

Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (Alex Man and Emily Chu) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-scène and transcendently melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history.

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