Romance of the Western Chamber (film)

Romance of the Western Chamber
1927 Chinese movie poster
Directed byHou Yao
Written byHou Yao
Play:
Wang Shifu
CinematographyLiang Linguang
Lai Man-Wai
Production
company
Release dates
  • 8 September 1927 (1927-09-08) (Hangzhou Theater, China)
[1]
Running time
42 min. (orig.)
45 min. (2007 DVD release)
CountryChina
LanguagesSilent film
Written Chinese and French intertitles
Scene from the 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.[1]

The 2007 USA DVD release by Cinema Epoch has an additional original musical score composed by Toshiyuki Hiraoka.

Plot

Cast

[1]

  • 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

  1. 1 2 3 "1927: "Romance of the West Chamber" and Ancient Costume Movies". The Chinese Mirror. Archived from the original on 1 August 2009. Retrieved 1 June 2026.

Further reading

  • Harris, K. (1999). "The Romance of the Western Chamber and the Classical Subject Film in 1920s Shanghai". In Yingjin, Zhang (ed.). Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. pp. 51–73. ISBN 978-0-8047-3188-1 – via Internet Archive.
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