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Farewell My Concubine : Dieyi Performs for the Japanese

Juxian (Gong Li) asks Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) to help rescue Xialou (Zhang Fengyi), not knowing that he was already preparing to do so. Once they have reached an agreement, Dieyi performs for the Japanese in order to save Xiaolou from imprisonment.

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backlighting, close-up, dolly shot, framing, hard lighting, historical mise-en-scene, lighting, low angle, match on action, medium long shot, medium shot, mirror shot, music, diegetic, over the shoulder shot, prop, shallow focus, shot/reverse shot, three-shot, tilt, two-shot

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"Dieyi Performs for the Japanese" in Farewell My Concubine. Directed by Chen Kaige, Beijing Film Studio, 1993, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=4327

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Phoebe Marin

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