Modern ‘Red Chamber Dream’

Modern ‘Red Chamber Dream’ (1952)

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Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the big four of classic Chinese novels, has been adapted for film and television dozens of times over the past decades. Yet this sui generis Great Wall production daringly transposes the setting to modern-day 1950s. The contemporised story revolves nonetheless around the love triangle between Jia Baoyu and his two cousins. Both girls love him but his heart belongs to only one. The ending, however, is remarkably changed to separation of the lovers as a result of war—the war that was surely still haunting the minds of the filmmakers at the time when the film was made. Not only did Great Wall pour money into building extravagant sets just so to recreate down to the smallest detail the grandeur of the legendary Jia mansion, but the film also boasted of its lavish costume designs for the diverse female cast. (From Hong Kong Film Archive)

Director: Griffin Yueh Feng

Casts

	Li Li-Hua as 林黛玉
	Yan Jun as 贾宝玉
	Ou-Yang Sha-Fei as 薛宝钗
	Luo Lan as
	Wang Yuan-Long as 贾政
	Gong Qiuxia as 贾母
	Ping Fan as 薛蟠
	Xu Li as
	Chen Qi as
	Hsia Meng as
	Chen Juan-Juan as 晴雯
	Kau Ping as
	Zhao Lei as
	Liu Lian as
	Soo Chin as
	Lee Fong-Fei as
	Huang Fang as
	Li Tse-Yu as

Crew