Directed by:
Kaige ChenScreenplay:
Kei ShuCinematography:
Christopher DoyleComposer:
Jiping ZhaoPlots(1)
A lush, lyrical parable about the modernization of China, TEMPTRESS MOON is the story of Zhongliang (Leslie Cheung), a Shanghai gangster raised on the sumptuous rural estate of the powerful, opium-addled Pang family. As a boy, Zhongliang, promised the life of a student, becomes instead a servant for his sister and her drug-addicted husband and a playmate for Ruyi (Gong Li), the female heir to the Pang dynasty. A permanent outsider, Zhongliang escapes the painful decadence of the Pang household and becomes a smooth-talking mobster, seducing women in the jazz-saturated clubs of 1920s Shanghai, but he is forced to face his past when hired to seduce and abduct Ruyi in a criminal attempt to gain control over the now vulnerable Pang estate. What begins as a routine seduction becomes more complicated when Zhongliang finds himself unable to escape his true feelings for Ruyi and crippling memories of his painful childhood. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Leslie Cheung](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271405_4f52d3.jpg)
Leslie Cheung
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
![Li Gong](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/163/164163809_1a7bd3.jpg)
Li Gong
China
Best movies:
To Live (1994)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Caifei He
China
Best movies:
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Lust, Caution (2007)
Temptress Moon (1996)
![Xun Zhou](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270352_189a37.jpg)
Xun Zhou
China
Best movies:
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Perhaps Love (2005)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
![Patrick Tse](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/103/160103203_985141.jpg)
Patrick Tse
China
Best movies:
Flaming Brothers (1987)
The Millionaires' Express (1986)
The Blade Spares None (1971)
![David Wu](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/190/160190541_182715.jpg)
David Wu
Best movies:
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Tiger Cage 2 (1990)
Looking for Mr. Perfect (2003)
![Shih Chang](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/184/164184771_faa1e9.jpg)
Shih Chang
Taiwan
Best movies:
The Wooden Man's Bride (1994)
Taipei Story (1985)
Rainy Dog (1997)