They make a splendidly vivacious team and their ensembleĬomedic timing is flawless. Martial arts coordinator Ching Sui Tung's innovative choreography of the film's numerous action scenes is superb and the cast boasts three of Hong Kong's most popular actresses-Brigitte Lin, Cherie Chung, and Sally Yeh. The skillful combination of breathtaking action and slapstick comedy in this film is nearly In an era in which most American films are either lifeless bores or cynical exercises in mass marketing (or both), PEKING OPERA BLUES is a welcome burst of manic energy that never fails to please. The film ends with the five on horseback vowing to meet again someday before going their separate ways. After a series of nonstop seductions, disguises, gunfights, kung-fu skirmishes, gymnastics, chases, double crosses, separations and reunions, the heroes succeed in getting the valued documents
Generals, and the secret police, with most of the zany action revolving around the colorful opera house. Together, the five do battle with the army, the Through a series of slapstick circumstances, a winsome but dim-witted street performer, a disaffected soldier, and the attractive daughter of the local opera house owner become involved in the plot and wind up comrades of the revolutionaries. She and a male accomplice are ordered to steal some secret documents from her father's Surprisingly, one of the key players in the revolution is the beautiful Brigitte Lin (aka Lin Ching-hsia), the daughter of China's most powerful general. Revolutionary plot to overthrow the military government. Set in China circa 1913, the fast-paced and complicated story centers on three young women from different social classes who become embroiled in a A delightfully frenetic comedy-adventure, PEKING OPERA BLUES serves as a terrific introduction to the energetic popular cinema of Hong Kong.
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