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	Peking Opera Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She longs to appear on the opera stage, but it is against the law, and her father prevents her every time.
		Even the characters themselves have a symbolic aspect and are represented as characters from the Peking Opera brought to life.
		Another opera tells about a time after she is widowed, and she leads other women generals of the Yang family to war and defeates the invaders from the Xia regime.
	www.illuminatedlantern.com /cinema/reviews/pekingoperablues.html (1221 words)

	Peking Opera Blues (1986)
		Later the two team with the Peking Opera school daughter after meeting a comrade (Cheng) at a show and being pursued by "the ticking office" (a reference made to local officials looking for rebels).
		What makes a film like "Peking Opera Blues" function so well is that it takes the elements of popular genre and blends them into the script that could have been dull but is not.
		"Peking Opera Blues" always seems to know what it is striving for and what it wants to get done before the credits role and the magnificent theme song play.
	www.geocities.com /pangit_cash/pob.html (604 words)

	Peking Opera Blues (1986)
		Peking Opera Blues demonstrates Tsui’s ongoing interest in strong female characters (itself a trait of Chinese Opera), evident since the character of Green Shadow stole The Butterfly Murders, and still apparent in his current work.
		Peking Opera Blues is a fine introduction to the spectacle of traditional Chinese Opera, referencing the opera June Snow (a tale of a woman wrongly sacrificed by unthinking men) in a sequence where the three women are united beneath an unseasonable flurry of snow.
		Ironically, after Mao’s Gang of Four were finally banished Chinese Opera found itself unfashionable, forcing opera players to abandon their first career for a move to the world of movies.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/pekingoperablues.htm (1071 words)

	The Illuminated Lantern - Asian Cinema Reviews: Peking Opera Blues
		This is the setting for Peking Opera Blues, a landmark film in Hong Kong cinema.
		Peking Opera Blues never stops moving, it never slows down.
		Peking Opera Blues is not named so just because much of its action takes place within the theater.
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	Peking Opera Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I think, though, it is the way that Peking Opera Blues is at one both universal, yet so uniquely Hong Kong-ish (is that a word?) in nature that holds the key to its lasting appeal.
		Peking Opera Blues' plot itself is fairly simple; with the three leads banding together to help each other out during the tumultuous times following the 1913 Chinese revolution.
		Peking Opera Blues' Hong Kong film techniques are quite apparent as well.
	www.hkfilm.net /pob.htm (582 words)

	Peking Opera Blues (1986)
		For lack of a better classification, the Webmaster would like to call Peking Opera Blues "The Perfect Hong Kong Film." Tsui Hark's film is a resounding cinematic wonder that mixes history, drama, comedy, romance, gender roles and old-fashioned entertainment value into one of the best examples of Hong Kong Cinema at work.
		The setting is the Peking Opera, which Tsui glamorizes and simultaneously parodies.
		Peking Opera Blues proves to be as emotionally resonant as it is wildly entertaining.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews/peking_opera_blues.htm (833 words)

	Peking Opera Blues - DVD Review
		Tsao Wan (Brigitte Lin from Dream Lovers) is the one leading the mission to obtain a vital document and she has to go against her father, General Tsao (played by Kenneth Tsang from Anna and The King), to defend the republic.
		The comedy in Peking Opera Blues is often very funny and well-timed, especially in the opera performance-scenes.
		Peking Opera Blues is literally filled with stars starting with our leading ladies and fan favourites from many movies of this era.
	www.sogoodreviews.com /reviews/pekingoperablues.htm (1292 words)

	Peking Opera Blues
		Lin plays the daughter of a corrupt general who is secretly conspiring with rebels to remove her father from power.
		She is initially aided by a lone rebel (Mark Cheng), but as the narrative progresses they are joined by one of the general's former guards, a beautiful yet conniving young woman and a feisty member of a local Opera troupe.
		'Peking Opera Blues' was made over fifteen years ago, but is still as fresh as it was then.
	www.dragonsdenuk.com /reviews/peking_opera_blues.htm (323 words)

	Peking Space Opera Blues: Equipment
		Laser weapons operate in the near ultraviolet, for better range performance; the dramatic blue and red beams of the talkingbooks are just fiction.
		In atmosphere, lasers produce trails of sparks along the beam, and a zap (or hiss, for continuous beams) which is still much less conspicuous than a blaster bolt.
		Peking Space Opera Blues is copyright 1997 by Trevor Placker.
	www.idiom.com /~trip/gaming/homebrew/psob/equipment.html (1025 words)

	pseudopodium: Peking Opera Blues
		For a not-very-observant observer like myself, there was King Hu, and Jackie Chan, and any amount of reasonably distracting nonsense, but it took Peking Opera Blues to show that the Hong Kong studio system worked, and that it was working to an extent that hadn't been seen since 1930s Hollywood.
		Unused to genuine movement in movies, first-time Peking Opera Blues viewers often feel at a loss; the opening sequence plunges them into a whitewater of Nashville-style protagonist relay, precision slapstick, satire, and suspense with absolutely no exposition to cling onto.
		Two of the five heroes of Peking Opera Blues are revolutionaries, but they're hopelessly naive and their Democracy is merely a MacGuffin.
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	Peking Opera Blues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peking Opera Blues (TC: 刀馬旦, SC: 刀马旦, pinyin: Dāo Mǎ Dàn) is a 1986 movie directed by Tsui Hark.
		This Hong Kong film-related article is a stub.
		Peking Opera Blues at the Internet Movie Database
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peking_Opera_Blues (96 words)

	Tsui Hark -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He often resurrects and revises classic films and genres: the murder mystery in The Butterfly Murders; the Shanghai musical comedy in Shanghai Blues (1985).
		Peking Opera Blues (1986) plays with and pays tribute to the traditions of the (additional info and facts about Peking opera) Peking opera that his mother took him to see as a small boy (Bordwell, 2000) and which had such a strong influence on Hong Kong action cinema.
		It will include the feature Seven Swords, directed by Tsui for 2005 release, as well as a related TV series and comic book series.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ts/tsui_hark.htm (1627 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A delightfully frenetic comedy-adventure, PEKING OPERA BLUES serves as a terrific introduction to the energetic popular cinema of Hong Kong.
		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.
		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.
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	arts directory 34 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bare A Pop Opera Lyric - the breakdown for the revised version of 'bare: a pop opera.' Once again all questions may be emotions from the group.
		Peking Opera Blues is a frenetic martial arts farce set in 1913 is the daughter of the manager of the Beijing Opera theater.
		Boston Opera House (Boston, MA Boston House Map Opera - of the opera house and its programme.
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	subway cinema \| peking opera blues (1986)
		The finest moment in the careers of Brigitte Lin, Cherie Chung, Sally Yeh and Tsui Hark, PEKING OPERA BLUES may also be the finest moment for cinema, period.
		Having to oppose her own father, and most of the Chinese government, Tsao Wan finds motley assistance from Pat Neil (Sally Yeh) the daughter of an opera company owner who dreams of the stage, even though women are barred from performing; and Sheung Hung (Cherie Chung) a gold-crazy courtesan.
		With action choreography by Ching Siu-tung, PEKING OPERA BLUES is not the stiff costume drama its plot description tags it as.
	www.subwaycinema.com /frames/archives/tsui2001/pekingopera.htm (620 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Peking Opera Blues [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Along with John Woo's The Killer and Jackie Chan's Project A, Peking Opera Blues is one of the key works of a great period of Hong Kong cinema in the mid-1980s.
		Peking Opera Blues is a cinematic explosion of humor and action.
		As a producer and/or director, Tsui was responsible for the Chinese Ghost Story trilogy, the Swordsman series, the Once Upon a Time in China series, and John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, but Peking Opera Blues was the first of his films to reach a Western arthouse audience.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6305235198 (1347 words)

	DVD Times: Region 0 Reviews: Peking Opera Blues
		Set in Peking just after the first Chinese revolution in the early part of the twentieth century, it focuses on three very different women: Tsao Wan (Brigitte Lin) is the daughter of a general who's secretly working to undermine him.
		But despite the tornado pacing - and even by its creators' own formidable standards this is breakneck stuff - it never loses sight of the central trio, their fears and ambitions, hopes and dreams, set against some superbly realised production design.
		This is a rich enough confection even for those with no knowledge of Peking Opera - but apparently if you're more familiar with the style and content of the standard repertory the film is crammed to bursting with allusions and references.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /reviews/other/pekingoperablues.html (638 words)

	Peking Opera Blues
		From the opening moment of the cynically laughing Peking Opera performer to the last frame, this is a work of brilliant storytelling and editing.
		Many of the action scenes and sequences in PEKING OPERA BLUES are definitely memorably gasp- inducing.
		This is not to say though that PEKING OPERA BLUES cannot appear marvelous at first sight.
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	Peking Opera Blues
		Peking Opera Blues is more plot-driven and a little slower paced than most of the other movies reviewed here but it is perfect the way it is.
		The movie is about a general's daughter (Brigitte Lin) who is secretly conspiring against him.
		In trying to steal secret papers, she meets up with the daughter of a Peking Opera House (Sally Yeh) and a woman who is just interested in stealing a box of gold and jewels (Cherie Chung).
	www.loveandbullets.com /pob.htm (349 words)

	Peking Opera Blues Movie DVDs
		The movie tells the story of three young women and two young men who are thrown together.
		A deserting soldier joins her, but the jewels end up at the Peking Opera.
		But even female roles are played by men in the opera.
	www.chinesetapes.com /movie_chinese/peking_opera_blues.html (196 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Peking Opera Blues
		This slapstick comedy drama stars three of Hong Kong's most attractive and popular actresses of their time: Brigitte Lin is the daughter of a general, Cherie Chung is a petty thief, and Sally Yip is the daughter of the manager of the Beijing Opera theater.
		The general's daughter has to steal an important document from her father's safe in order to help out the guerrillas who are fighting for the republic.
		Her exploits and those of her two friends flow back and forth between the Imperial Palace and the theater of the Beijing Opera.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/26645/plot.jhtml (175 words)

	Flicks
		She teams up with a freedom fighter (Mark Cheng) in a plan to steal vital documents, but things are complicated by the unwitting intrusion of a gold-digging singer (Cherie Chung) chasing a lost box of jewels, and a hapless soldier on the lam (Paul Chu).
		Somehow they get mixed up with the opera troupe of the title, and they are joined in their escapades by the opera director's daughter (Sally Yeh) who dreams of performing on stage, although this is forbidden to women.
		It is one of the pleasures of this film that the true action heroes are the three women, and that romance with the men takes a back seat to female friendship.
	www.cinescene.com /flicks/flicks012002.html (2371 words)

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		They run into a greedy singer SHEUNG HUNG who flees with the general's jewels after his collapse.
		PAK NEIL, is the daughter of an Opera troop owner.
		Her break comes when the leading actors dissappear all of a sudden.
	www.nicheflix.com /movie_details.aspx?movieID=5454 (76 words)

	Peking Opera Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The zoo animals in Madagascar don't know how good they have it until they decide to follow the lead of four loony penguins and make a break for the wilderness, away from their comfy cells.
		After his star turn as the late Ray Charles in Ray, Jamie Foxx is back to playing a supporting role in Jarhead, a war drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
		In PEKING OPERA BLUES, he portrays the ambitions of three different women in late nineteenth century China.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/peking_opera_blues (323 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
		It's pure viewing satisfaction that is sure to chase the mainstream movie blues away.
		Dorian Blues has wit, humor, good performances, and clever technique, which catapult the film into the front ranks of coming-out movies.
		This fourth Potter film is qualitatively different from the first three: It doesn’t linger on the gothic curlicues of the source material, and it emphasizes the emotional development of its characters with dramatic interplay rather than expressionistic, atmospheric gloom.
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	FunnyStrange.com: peking opera blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		That's difficult!" while the supporting cast lift her up, still in the split, and carry her off stage.
		There was a lot of drag -- not only the opera company, who of course are all male actors, but also Brigitte Lin's character dresses like an Edwardian dandy, and may I say she looks damn sexy in men's clothes -- and I wondered if that was at all shocking when the movie was made.
		We ran into Marty from the station and his fiance Robin before the show, and afterwards Marty commented that he had enjoyed the fantasy fighting style.
	www.funnystrange.com /diary/archives/000704.php (304 words)

	JR.com: Peking Opera Blues (1986) - DVD in Movies: Foreign Films:
		After SHANGHAI BLUES, director Tsui Hark has said that he became interested in using women as the central characters in his film.
		Sheung Heung (Cherie Chung) is an avaricious musician who just wants to steal a box of jewelry, while Pat Neil (Sally Yeh) is an aspiring actress who dreams of performing in the all-male Peking Opera of her father.
		The film also has a serious underlying theme about the Chinese political landscape; in fact, the film was released just three years before the momentous events in Tiananmen Square in China.
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	Peking Opera Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		If Crouching Tiger whetted your appetite for Hong Kong cinema then you owe it to yourself to catch this classic of the genre.
		"Watching Peking Opera Blues is like flipping through the most explosive, most exhilarating, comic book ever made.
		Peking makes you feel as if you're seated on the nose of a bullet.
	www.ragtagfilm.com /archives/films/peking.htm (105 words)

	synoposis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Cast: Sylvia Chang, Kenny Bee, Sally Yeh, Loletta Li hanghai Blues, despite its title, is a funny love story, though it does touch upon the more poignant side of life in Shanghai in the late 1940s.
		Against the background of sweeping conflict, there is the comparatively cloistered world of Peking Opera, with its rigid stage craft and theatrical traditions.
		Fortunately, Blue Phoenix, being an expert in poisons, counter-attacks with a horde of poisonous bees.
	www.filmworkshop.net /english/fws/synopsis.htm (10846 words)

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