The King of Masks

The King of Masks

  • Director: Tian-Ming Wu
  • Writer: Wengui Chen,Minglun Wei
  • Countries of origin: China, Hong Kong
  • Language: Mandarin
  • Release date: August 16, 1996
  • Sound mix: Dolby SR
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: King of Masks
  • "The king of masks" is a feature film directed by Tianming Wu and starring Xu Zhu , Renying Zhou , Zhigang Zhao, etc.
    The film tells the story of the old artist "The king of masks" who abides by the tradition and accepts the dog baby as a disciple to inherit the mantle. Unexpectedly, the dog baby is a woman disguised as a man. In the end, the king of masks broke the stereotype of "passing on men and not women". , the story of passing art to Gouwa.
    The film was released in China on June 9, 1995   .

    Details

    • Release date August 16, 1996
    • Filming locations Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area in Sichuan, China
    • Production companies Shaw Brothers

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,113,103

    Gross worldwide

    $1,113,103

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    • By Kaitlin 2022-12-23 07:54:40

      always like to talk off topic

      I always like to talk about things that are not very relevant. I don't want to say too much about the wonderfulness of the movie, but after searching on Baidu and entering the keyword "face change", among the eleven results on the homepage, only one is related to this movie, and ten are about Cage's. Oh, by the way, one of the results was in both films. Weird search results, but normal results. Then I saw a few friends in Baidu Know who were looking for this movie. Of course, these friends made...

    • By Domenica 2022-12-16 16:18:54

      old society in miniature

      The film tells the story of a lonely face-changing king who bought a grandson "dog baby" from a human trafficker in order to keep the incense heritage's face-changing stunt from being lost. Through their stories, the movie shows the current situation of the society at that time through their stories. Through the face-changing king's teaching of stunts, it shows the old society's patriarchal ideology. There is a scene in the movie where the face-changing king sells children. When I visited...

    • By Aidan 2022-12-11 12:32:44

      I'm not good enough to tell a story, don't frown

      From "A Hundred Birds to the Phoenix" to "Changing Faces", the master just said, don't frown if my story is not appealing enough. I will only use straight words to set the scene and tell the story. There is no intense emotional impact, no racking of brains to deliberately push the audience's emotions. The world is hot and cold, but the actors and artists cherish each other, and the feudalism is solidified but the truth destroys it. The exploration of traditional culture, the questioning of...

    • By Victoria 2022-12-07 23:16:14

      Wherever love comes

      The traditional Chinese patriarchal concept is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, the shackles of love can be broken, but the process is disturbing.

      The dog baby was lucky and was adopted by the face-changing king. However, because it is a girl, the process of adoption can be described as difficult.
      From "grandfather" to "boss" and then to "grandfather", he was abandoned and forgotten several times, which also revealed
      the secular side of the face-changing...

    • By Lexi 2022-12-03 20:50:36

      Change is the face, the same is the love

      Borrowing a sentence from the living Guanyin in the film, you can point out the connotation of the film's main theme, "Sir, although the world is hot and cold, there is true love in the world." Truth 1, although the face-changing king and Gouwa are not related by blood, a strong grandfather-grandson relationship has developed between them over time; truth two, Gouwa feels guilty and grateful to the face-changing king, and gave him a gift after leaving. "Grandson" wants to give his life to...

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    • By Haylie 2023-09-28 16:04:58

      "Old Well" did not have this master work until ten years later. For these two works, Wu Tianming can be called a master, while Zhang Yimou of the fifth generation and Ning Hao of the sixth generation are at most only craftsmen. . 【Broadway Cinema...

    • By Edyth 2023-09-28 03:40:10

      nice! The last scene of calling Grandpa made me cry! The dog baby is clever, brave and loyal. Although there is no teapot mouth, it is the real Guanyin of Taoism. The lines are so well written, the folk art feel is so...

    • By Fabiola 2023-09-25 16:22:45

      great film of chinese culture and...

    • By Aletha 2023-09-20 02:46:39

      In the era of small people and big people, they are both artists. The face-changing king and the popular artist Liang Sulan who walk the streets and alleys look different, but they are actually the same. When Liang Sulan confided her heart to the child, she said that she was just an actor, and she was soft-spoken. The story of looking for incense and inheriting the mantle through the face-changing king reflects the traditional culture's awareness of valuing sons over women and the inside over...

    • By Nyasia 2023-09-19 19:24:20

      I saw it when I was a kid. There are also excerpts from novels in the junior high school texts. The image of the old man making the little girl pee after being bitten by a snake is particularly deep. There is also the slogan that is passed on to men and not women. Feudalism of...

    Movie plot

    In the Sichuan Plain in the 1920s, there was an old artist named The king of masks ( Xu Zhu ) , who had a unique skill , a boat as his home, and a green monkey as his company. The famous Sichuan opera actress Liang Sulan ( Zhigang Zhao ) After witnessing the unique skills of The king of masks, he begged him to join the Liyuan, but he politely refused, but the sincere conversation between the two made the king of The king of masks...
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    In the film "The king of masks", director Tianming Wu used the layered structure of "off-screen play" and "face-on-face" to complete the thinking and association of human feelings and human nature, triggering people's profound understanding of traditional values ​​and their cultural psychology Reflect. The embarrassing situation and bitter mentality of "The king of masks" seems to be the spiritual portrayal of the director who lost his...
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