Temptress Moon (1996)
Feng yue
What the heart hides, the moon reveals.
130 min
Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.
- Release date
- May 29, 1997
- Country of origin
- China
- Music
- Jiping Zhao
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Trailer
Cast
- Leslie Cheung as Zhongliang
- Gong Li as Ruyi
- Kevin Lin as Duanwu
- Saifei He as Xiuyi
- Shih Chang as Li Niangjiu
- Liankun Lin as Pang An
- Hsiang-Ting Ko as Elder Qi
- Jie Zhou as Woman on Zephyr Lane
- Yemang Zhou as Pang Zhengda
- Xun Zhou as Night Club Girl (uncredited)
- David Wu as Jingyun
- Yin Tse as Biggie
- Leslie Cheung as Ruyi's brother-in-law
- Kevin Lin as Ruyi's distant cousin
- Saifei He as Zhongliang's sister-Zhengda's wife
- Yin Tse as Zhongliang's Boss
- David Wu as Ruyi's betrothed as a child
Crew
- Kaige Chen · Director
- Kaige Chen · Writer
- Kei Shu · Writer
- Anyi Wang · Writer
- Feng Hsu · Producer
- Jun-Nian Tang · Producer
- Jiping Zhao · Composer
- Christopher Doyle · Cinematographer
- Xiaonan Pei · Editor
- Qiagui Huang · Production designer