The King of Masks
Year | 1996 |
Starring | Renying Zhou, Xu Zhu, Zhigang Zhang, Zhigang Zhao |
Director(s) | Tian-Ming Wu |
Rating | Unrated |
Genre(s) | Drama |
Runtime | 91 min |
Wang Bianlian is a street performer and master of the Szechuan opera technique involving the fast alternation of masks. Having long been estranged from his family, Lian longs to find a male heir to whom he can teach his craft. Few candidates are found, until he buys a young boy from a poor family. He begins to teach the boy, whom he affectionately nicknames Doggie, but soon discovers that Doggie is not a boy at all, but in fact a girl, and therefore excluded from Lian’s craft.