Temptress Moon
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- Year:
- 1996
- 130 min
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What is opium...
Ruyi, my daughter?
Opium is the source
of all inspiration.
TEMPTRESS MOON:
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- Produced by:
Tong Cunlin, Hsu Feng
Leslie Cheung, Gong Li
Kevin Lin, He Saifei
Original Story:
Chen Kaige, Wang Anyi
Screenplay:
Shu KeiDirector of Photography:
Christopher Doyle
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- Art Director:
Huang QiaguiSound Recording:
Lai QizhenMusic by:
Zhao JipingProduction Supervisor:
Jade Hsu
Assistant Director:
Zhang Jinzhan
Editor:
Pei Ziaonan- Directed by:
Chen Kaige-
Zhongliang, I live here
with my husband Zhengda.
Brought your school books?
- Yes, sister.
- Zhengda says...
you can prepare his opium
when you're not busy studying.
- My luck is terrible today!
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- Nothing but bad hands!
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if you ask me!
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- Sixty thousand.
- That does it!
Ruyi! Stop it!
Your father's going
to spank you!
Ruyi! Ruyi!
Ruyi, do as I say!
Do as I say!
Look at her!
Ruyi! Ruyi!
You're not allowed in there!
Elder Qi, it's true,
the Emperor has abdicated.
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Duanwu, catch her!
Pang An!
This is an outrage!
A girl in the ancestral hall!
Even if the Emperor has
abdicated! It's unthinkable!
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- A girl in the ancestral hall!
Uncle An!
Can Miss Ruyi come out
and play later?
Master doesn't want her
coming out at all.
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The Jing family
are all bastards!
How dare they break off
the engagement with Ruyi!
Just because the Emperor
abdicated doesn't mean they can
insult us like this!
They say our young miss
has smoked opium
since she was a baby.
They say she is poison.
Bullshit!
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We study day and night...
to learn what's wrong and right.
Brother, I'm too heavy for you.
Put me down.
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Brother-in-law.
Opium is a wonderful thing.
How can I put it?
Opium.
Yes, it is poison.
Just like this arsenic.
But me...
it's made me strong.
Zhongliang.
Kiss your sister.
Why don't you kiss her?
Come here.
Come on. Kiss sister!
Never mind.
Run along to bed.
Go now.
Zhongliang!
Give your sister a kiss.
Kiss her!
Go on.
I'll teach you to be a man.
SIX MONTHS LATER
Zhongliang!
Zhongliang.
Zhengda's waiting.
Is this the train to Peking?
Is this the train to Peking?
Thief!
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- SHANGHAI, 1920s
Zhongliang.
- Hmm!
- I've won.
Let me kiss you.
Oh!
Ladies and gentlemen,
please enjoy your evening.
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So, you'd like a kiss?
Would you?
Don't make a sound.
Not one sound.
Now, Mrs. Liu, who's going
to phone your husband?
You or us?
I don't understand!
So, you want me to call?
- Zhongliang!
- Zhongliang is dead!
How much money do you want?
Hey, Mister!
Spare some change?
Zhongliang.
You called for me?
Zhongliang.
Do you want me?
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You sure there's nothing
I can do for you ladies?
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Ancestral Hall
I've gathered you here...
because old master Pang
has passed away.
become the new family head.
But ten years ago, he was
stricken with a sudden illness.
And he has seen no one since.
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- Few people knew
of his condition.
But now,
with the old master gone...
it's time to face facts.
Quiet in the hall!
l, Pang An,
kowtow to our ancestors
on Zhengda's behalf.
Zhengda's mind
has been destroyed.
He cannot speak.
He cannot do anything, in fact.
But as long as he's alive,
he is Master...
of the Pang family.
Zhengda is too ill...
Old master also had
a daughter, Ruyi.
Please, Elder Qi,
speak for us.
Very well.
Zhengda, shall we ask Miss Ruyi
Master Zhengda
heartily approves.
Call her in then.
Because Ruyi is a girl...
she'll be a bit weak.
- I've conferred
with the other elders...
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and we've decided to ask
a male cousin to help her out.
Pang Duanwu!
Pang Duanwu!
We've chosen Duanwu.
He is a Pang.
But he's not a direct heir.
No! Not this way!
That way!
A closer relative
might have personal ambitions...
but not a distant cousin.
He has nothing to gain
and everything to lose.
Hurry. Hurry and kowtow
to your cousin.
Duanwu is Ruyi's cousin, but
he may call her elder sister.
Elder sister.
- Boss.
- Sorry you had to wait.
- Had a bath?
- Yes, I like to have a good
soak whenever I can.
You haven't come by in a while.
Ready to leave the nest?
Your sister's father-in-law,
old master Pang, is dead.
I want you to go
visit your sister.
And then you can bring Pang's
daughter, Ruyi, to Shanghai...
for a nice little vacation.
Leave the rest to us.
Boss, please...
don't send me there.
HEAVENLY LANE:
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- It's only me.
Hold me.
I need to go home early...
to make dinner
for my husband.
Zhongliang.
Do you love me?
Sorry.
I shouldn't have asked.
Take some cash.
Put it on our tab at the club.
Thanks, Boss.
No need to see me out.
Don't worry, Boss.
Zhongliang.
You've been working on
that woman a long time, no?
- Which one?
- The one in Heavenly Lane.
Her husband's out of town.
We can't move on her.
Maybe you're
getting too involved.
From this moment,
young miss...
you are the head
of the Pang family.
l, Pang An,
formally pay my respects.
Ruyi...
your father's and brother's
concubines are...
Sit down, Duanwu.
Miss, the concubines
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