The King of Masks (1995)
Bian Lian
91 min
Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy loner aching for a male descendent to learn his rare and dying art.
- Release date
- June 9, 1995
- Country of origin
- China, Hong Kong SAR China
- Music
- Jiping Zhao
- Box office
- $1
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Cast
- Xu Zhu as Bianlian Wang ('Face-Changing King'))
- Zhaoji Jia as Human trafficker
- Renying Zhou as Gou Wa ('Doggie')
- Zhigang Zhao as Liang Sulan
- Li Chen as Ms Wen
- Jiannan Dong as Nanny
- Hong Pan as Li Xiang
- Gaoqi Tang as Division commander
- Zhonghe Tian as Shop owner
- Ruiyang Zhang as Tianci
Crew
- Tian-Ming Wu · Director
- Wengui Chen · Writer
- Minglun Wei · Writer
- Mona Fong · Producer
- Titus Ho · Producer
- Jiping Zhao · Composer
- Da-Yuan Mu · Cinematographer