Rouge (film)

Rouge (Chinese: 胭脂扣; pinyin: Yānzhī kòu; Cantonese Yale: Yìnjì kau; Jyutping: Jin1zi1 kau3) is a 1988 Hong Kong film, directed by Stanley Kwan. The movie is the adaptation of a novel with the same title by Lilian Lee.

For the Kieślowski film, see Three Colors: Red.
Not to be confused with films titled Rogue.

Rouge
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Directed byStanley Kwan
Produced byJackie Chan
Leonard Ho
Written byYau Tai Ping On
Lilian Lee Pik Wah
StarringAnita Mui
Leslie Cheung
Music byMichael Lai
Tang Siu Lam
CinematographyBill Wong
Edited byPeter Cheung
Production
company
Golden Harvest
Golden Way Films
Release date
7 January 1988 (1988-01-07)
Running time
96 min / USA:93 min
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$17,476,414

Plot

In 1987 Hong Kong, newspaperman Yuen (Alex Man) and his girlfriend, Chor (Emily Chu) are drawn into a doomed 1930s romance when the ghost of courtesan Fleur (Anita Mui) places an advertisement, looking for her lost lover Chan Chen-Pang (Leslie Cheung). She has waited in the afterlife for Chan for 53 years and believes he has become lost.

Chan was the playboy son of a wealthy family, but longed to be an actor, who met and fell in love with talented, beautiful Fleur in one of Hong Kong's teahouses. Realising their romance would never be accepted, the couple committed suicide by opium overdose in order to be together in death.

Pragmatic Yuen and Chor become dazzled by the romance of Fleur's story and the ghost's glamorous beauty, but as their search for Chan reveals the truth - that Chan did not die with Fleur, frittered away his inheritance and now lives impoverished as a Chinese opera stand-in - they see the value of their own, honest relationship.

The title refers to a rouge case Chan gave to Fleur, which she returns to the now-elderly, guilt-wracked man, before leaving the living world.

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