Peach Blossom (China Version)
Director Tien Zhuangzhaung has a reputation for making critically acclaimed films with tabooed topics, such as his politically controversial Blue Kite. But apart from directing, Tien is just as capable as a producer. Recently he produced young director Wang Xinsheng's Peach Blossom, a film adaptation of Jia Pingwa's controversial novel The Good Fortune Grave about the wife of China's last eunuch. A perverted eunuch marries a gorgeous woman who is as beautiful as a peach blossom, as the Chinese idiom goes. The old eunuch wants to bring her into his grave, where he will be ending up soon, but she, being deprived of an aspect of normal marriage, develops an affairs with a charismatic opera actor...
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