Romance of the Western Chamber (film)

Romance of the Western Chamber
1927 Chinese movie poster
Directed by	Hou Yao
Written by	Hou Yao Play: Wang Shifu
Cinematography	Liang Linguang Lai Man-Wai
Production company	China Sun Motion Picture Company (Shanghai)
Release date	8 September 1927 (, China)[1] 2007 (USA)
Running time	42 min. (orig.) 45 min. (2007 DVD release)
Country	China
Languages	Silent film Written Chinese and French intertitles

Scene from the film.

Romance of the Western Chamber (Chinese: 西廂記; pinyin: xīxiāngjì), also known as Way Down West, is a 1927 silent Chinese film drama directed by Hou Yao.

The film is an adaption of the classic Chinese dramatic work Romance of the Western Chamber by Wang Shifu.

Originally consisting of ten film reels, only five have survived.^[1]

The 2007 USA DVD release by has an additional original musical score composed by .

Cast[]

^[1]

• Lim Cho Cho - as Cui Yingying, the daughter of the late Prime Minister
• Li Dandan - as Hongniang, the maidservant of yingying
• () - as Madame Cui, the mother of Yingying
• - as wise student Zhang Gong
• - as an old monk Fa Pen
• / - as Sung Fei Fu (Tiger Sun), the bandit king
• / - as monk Wei Hing, the messenger with bō staff
• - as clever monk
• - as the White Horse General
• - as the stupid monk
• - as the boy servant

References[]

Further reading[]

• Harris K. (1999), "The Romance of the Western Chamber and the Classical Subject Film in 1920s Shanghai" in (ed.), Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. pp. 51–73.

External links[]

• Romance of the Western Chamber at IMDb
• http://www.dvdtalk.com/silentdvd/romance_of_the.html

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