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Both movies are Chinese opera and the role of women in this art. The King of Masks is depicting a child opera player, while the Chanting Willows are about two adult females, but both are tinged by the worry about a dying art and cultural form.
Both movies are about Chines opera singers and women/men playing the opposite gender, blurring the lines between femininity a masculinity, becoming almost a "third gender" troubled by emotions.
Both movies are about a pair of yuè opera singers and about social issues. Stage Sisters is about the contrast between art and stark reality in a troubled age of the 1930s-1940s when opera singers were still considered low class and easy to prey on ; The Chanting Willows is set in the 1990s with the artists more respected but their art on the wane.
The story of Xianglin Sao, downtrodden by her in-law family and the towns people she worked for, reminds of the first part of Kong Xiu's life as the wife of a farmer whose family expects her to toil at home and in the fields, and give birth to male heirs. But the fate of Kong Xiu is kinder; there are no wolves to take away her son, she only has to give him up to the farmer's family, and be content with caring for a daughter. It's a hard life in both movies, but the fate of women does seem to have improved a bit since the 1956 adaptation of Lu Xun's tragic short story.
Like Rose in the Tale of Rose, Kong Xiu has several suitors, and finds her future in realizing her dreams alone. But the hardships are different: Meigui was moved by sentiments, whereas Kong Xiu never got a chance to love and had to toil instead.
The ML Wei Heling is ML in New Year Sacrifice as well as playing a newspaper vendor friend of the ML in Street Angel, both movies are Chinese cinema classics ; New Year Sacrifice from 1956 is in color, whereas Street Angel from 1937 is still in black and white, but with a FL who became famous for her songs. Both portray ordinary people: New Year Sacrifice is centered around those living in the countryside; Street Angels around those living in Shanghai city.
No real lawbreakers in the series about the mountain high school for girls, but Lan Xiya shines as an actress in both stories.
Both movies deal with the hope that morality will eventually prevail despite the harshness of the world.
Both are stories about lawbreakers who are more victims of a tough society than totally devoid of humanity.
Both have same cast. It is the same kind of vertical drama with a steamy tropey story and snowflakes, cold CEO who falls head over heels over a young female student....
Only to while time away : nothing serious, so there is no need to bother looking for flaws, plot holes, etc. It is just sweet pastime for 3hrs+ in the "compilation edition" on YouTube, just like the box of colored candies that features in Embrace Through The Moon.
Only to while time away : nothing serious, so there is no need to bother looking for flaws, plot holes, etc. It is just sweet pastime for 3hrs+ in the "compilation edition" on YouTube, just like the box of colored candies that features in Embrace Through The Moon.
About a couple suffering from depression and PTSD after a physical assault. They help each other recover a lost memory and get back to mental health.
The weapons are air guns for competitions, not military ones.
The weapons are air guns for competitions, not military ones.
A war movie set in a fictional North African country. Embassy staff aid fellow citizens in evacuating.
