• Source: Romance of the Western Chamber (film)

Romance of the Western Chamber (Chinese: 西廂記; pinyin: xīxiāngjì), also known as Way Down West, is a 1927 silent Chinese film drama directed by Hou Yao.
The film is an adaption of the classic Chinese dramatic work Romance of the Western Chamber by Wang Shifu.
Originally consisting of ten film reels, only five have survived.
The 2007 USA DVD release by Cinema Epoch has an additional original musical score composed by Toshiyuki Hiraoka.




Cast



Lim Cho Cho - as Cui Yingying, the daughter of the late Prime Minister
Li Dandan - as Hongniang, the maidservant of yingying
He Minzhuang (M. C. Noo) - as Madame Cui, the mother of Yingying
T. K. Kar - as wise student Zhang Gong
Tsao Yao Dein - as an old monk Fa Pen
Lee Wha Ming/Li Huamin - as Sung Fei Fu (Tiger Sun), the bandit king
Lu Ying Lang/Li Yinlan - as monk Wei Hing, the messenger with bō staff
Wang Longxi - as clever monk
Hu Chichang - as the White Horse General
Zhu Yaoting - as the stupid monk
Huang Ke - as the boy servant




References






Further reading


Harris K. (1999), "The Romance of the Western Chamber and the Classical Subject Film in 1920s Shanghai" in Zhang Y. (ed.), Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. pp. 51–73.




External links


Romance of the Western Chamber at IMDb
http://www.dvdtalk.com/silentdvd/romance_of_the.html

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