Rouge (film)

Template:Short description Template:For Template:Distinguish Template:Multiple issues Template:Use Hong Kong English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox film Rouge (Template:Zh; Jyutping: Jin1zi1 kau3) is a 1987 Hong Kong supernatural romantic-drama film directed by Stanley Kwan, and starring Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung. The film is the adaptation of a novel with the same title by Lilian Lee.

Plot

In 1987 Hong Kong, newspaperman Yuen and his girlfriend Chor are drawn into a doomed 1930s romance when the ghost of courtesan Fleur publishes an advertisement in the newspapers, looking for her lost lover Chan Chen-Pang. She has waited in the afterlife for Chan for 53 years and believes he has become lost.

Chan was the playboy son of a wealthy family, but longed to be an actor, met and fell in love with talented, beautiful Fleur in one of Hong Kong's teahouses. Realising their romance would never be accepted, the couple committed suicide by opium overdose in order to be together in the afterlife.

Pragmatic Yuen and Chor become dazzled by the romance of Fleur's story and the ghost's glamorous beauty, but as their search for Chan reveals the truth - that Chan did not die with Fleur, frittered away his inheritance and now lives impoverished as a movie extra - they see the value of their own, honest relationship.

The title refers to a rouge case Chan gave to Fleur, which she returns to the now-elderly, guilt-wracked man, before leaving the living world.

Cast

• Anita Mui as Fleur
• Leslie Cheung as Chan Chen-pang
• Alex Man as Yuen
• Irene Wan as Shu-Hsien
• Emily Chu as Ah Chor
• Kara Hui as Ghost
• Lau Kar-wing as Movie Director
• Patrick Tse as Brothel Patron
• Ruby Wong
• Jackie Chan Stunt Team – extra/stunts

Release

The film received a Region 1 Criterion Collection home video release in 2022.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Notes
1988	Torino International Festival of Young Cinema	International Feature Film Competition		Special Mention	Template:Citation needed
	Nantes Three Continents Festival	Grand Prix		Won	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	24th Golden Horse Awards	Best Leading Actress	Anita Mui	Template:Won
	Asia-Pacific Film Festival	Best Actress			Template:Citation needed
1989	8th Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Film	Golden Way Films Ltd./Golden Harvest Films	Template:Won
		Director	Stanley Kwan	Template:Won
		Best Actress	Anita Mui	Template:Won
		Best Film Editing	Peter Cheung	Template:Won
		Best Original Film Score	Lai Siu-Tin	Template:Won
		Best Original Film Song	"Yin Ji Kau"	Template:Won

External links

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• HK cinemagic entry