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Who are you?

2
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We're with
the opera troupe.

3
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Oh, I didn't recognize you!

4
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I'm a great fan of you both.

5
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Is that so? Thank you.

6
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It's been over twenty years since
you performed together, hasn't it?

7
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Twenty-one.

8
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Twenty-two.

9
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Yes, twenty-two years.

10
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And it's been ten years
since we last saw each other.

11
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Eleven. Eleven years.

12
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that's right, eleven years. Yes.

13
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It's due to the Gang of Four
and the Cultural Revolution.

14
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Right!

15
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Yeah, that's right.

16
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Things are better now.

17
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that's for sure.

18
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Everything's fine now.

19
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Please, wait here a moment.
I'll go turn on the lights.

20
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Sorry to trouble you.

21
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Yanhong, is that you?
I've really missed you.

22
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Whore!

23
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Ladies and gentlemen,

24
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enjoy the show!

25
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You, cunning asshole!

26
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Laizi is trying to run away again.
Brat! See how far you get!

27
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Quick, go catch him!

28
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I'm sorry.

29
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Gentlemen, please be patient.

30
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Trash ! how dare you
show yourselves around here?

31
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Fuck you all !

32
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Just as sure as my name
is Shitou. . .

33
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I'll give you something
to look at.

34
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What are you screaming for?
I haven't even said hello yet!

35
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You're a disgrace to
the opera troupe.

36
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You couldn't even
play a monkey right.

37
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Thought you'd get away
with that brick act, didn't you?

38
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It's garbage.

39
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Sharpen your knives!

40
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Sharpen your knives!

41
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This child isn't fated
to be an actor.

42
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Not with that extra finger.

43
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He have a good face,
but he can't.

44
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Sharpen your knives!

45
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I can afford to raise him. . .

46
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but he's getting too big
to keep at the brothel.

47
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If only you take him,
you can do anything you like.

48
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Don't look down on us.

49
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don't be foolish.
Prostitutes and actors

50
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are equally despised
by society.

51
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Just go away.

52
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Ma, my hands are freezing.
They feel like ice.

53
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Ma!

54
00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,590
Get away from us,
you son of a whore!

55
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It's from the whore house!
Drop it on the foor!

56
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Are you bullying him?

57
00:11:28,510 --> 00:11:29,640
Come over here.
Sleep with me!

58
00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,450
You're really something !

59
00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,530
Laizi, go snuggle up
with the Little Monk.

60
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Catch !

61
00:11:59,050 --> 00:12:00,340
It's so cold outside. . .

62
00:12:01,170 --> 00:12:05,590
the piss froze
on the tip of my dick.

63
00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:08,260
I nearly turned
a somersault!

64
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If you belong to the human
race, you go to the opera.

65
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Pigs and dogs
don't listen to opera.

66
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If you don't go to the opera,

67
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you're not a human being.

68
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And where there's opera,
there's work for us actors!

69
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Stop squealing !

70
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Straighten that back!

71
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If you think
you're above everyone else. . .

72
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you'll learn the hard way.
This is just the beginning.

73
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Don't worry, Douzi.

74
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We're already half way
through.

75
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Shitou, are you helping
someone cheat?

76
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Master, I was looking up.
I didn't notice what was on the floor.

77
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Bullshit! Get me my sword.

78
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And hurry up!

79
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Get up!

80
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Don't you have something to say?

81
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Yes. Forming cliques is
prohibited and wi'll be punished.

82
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He's not fucking scared
of anything.

83
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From the time opera began. . .

84
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It's never enjoyed such
popularity as it does today!

85
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You're lucky to be part of it!

86
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We are!

87
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Heavens will...
not a lack of material skill. . .

88
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I've been practicing
kung fu

89
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to keep myself warm.

90
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It's cool out side, quite cool.

91
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But I've become a man of fire.
Get away from me.

92
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I am so strong,
I can uproot the Mountains. .

93
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My courage is renowned

94
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I've fallen on bad times

95
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Yet even my horse
Won't run away to save itself.

96
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These are our rules.
We must learn them well.

97
00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:31,690
From ancient times,
man has needed a skill.

98
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If you devote yourself to this,
you'll get paid off.

99
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Now go off and practice!

100
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Let's hear Fleeing by Night.

101
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I look back at the Celestial Court
and hurry on wards in fight. . .

102
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Heedless of. . . heedless of. . .

103
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Heedless of what?

104
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Heedless of loyalty
and filial piety.

105
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I am so strong,
I can uproot the mountains.

106
00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:09,480
Yet even my horse
Won't run away to save itself.

107
00:17:09,610 --> 00:17:12,360
And my beloved concubine,
what shall I do about her?

108
00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,740
Excellent, not a word out of place.
Give me your hand.

109
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This is so you'll remember
to do as well the next time.

110
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I am a nun. .

111
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At sixteen I am a nun.
My hair is shorn at youth's prime.

112
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Go on.

113
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I am by nature a boy...

114
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I am by nature a boy...

115
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You are by nature a girl !

116
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I'll punish you, Laizi !
You still can't get it right, can you?

117
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Don't hit me!
I won't do it again !

118
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I am. . . I am by nature. . .

119
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Spit it out!

120
00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:17,210
I am by nature a boy. . .

121
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Is a nun a male or a female?

122
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A. . .

123
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A boy. . .

124
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You really are in character.
You can't even tell male from female.

125
00:18:44,530 --> 00:18:47,330
I-l-l am by nature a boy. . .

126
00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:53,790
You've forgotten everything
the master has taught you!

127
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Do it again, and I'll beat you
within an inch of your life.

128
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You'd better remember this.

129
00:19:26,830 --> 00:19:30,870
If by chance
I'm beaten to death tomorrow. . .

130
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The three copper coins
hidden under my mattress.

131
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Careful !

132
00:19:43,130 --> 00:19:46,970
Don't water your hand !

133
00:19:55,900 --> 00:19:59,940
Douzi, in a few days, you'll be
initiated into the troupe.

134
00:20:00,070 --> 00:20:04,820
Just pretend you're a girl,
and don't mess up the lyrics again.

135
00:20:19,630 --> 00:20:21,590
Laizi, have you ever eaten
sweet pea cakes?

136
00:20:21,710 --> 00:20:24,930
Whats the big deal
about sweet peacakes?

137
00:20:25,050 --> 00:20:26,140
How about millet rolls?

138
00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:27,600
Basin cakes?

139
00:20:27,890 --> 00:20:29,930
The're about as fucking
special as dog farts.

140
00:20:30,010 --> 00:20:31,850
So what do you like?

141
00:20:35,020 --> 00:20:39,520
There's nothing yummier
than a stick of candied crab apples.

142
00:20:39,650 --> 00:20:44,150
If I make it big, I'll eat candied
crab apples every day for dinner.

143
00:20:44,950 --> 00:20:56,870
Candied crab apples for sale!
Candied crab apples for sale!

144
00:20:57,750 --> 00:21:02,170
Don't look at us like that.
We're not sticks of apple.

145
00:21:03,050 --> 00:21:06,180
Laizi,
you're drooling !

146
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,140
Laizi,
What the hell are you doing?

147
00:21:17,190 --> 00:21:19,940
Wow, so many big kites!

148
00:21:40,130 --> 00:21:40,750
Douzi, we got only 2 days
to go.

149
00:21:41,750 --> 00:21:42,290
Run for it!

150
00:21:46,260 --> 00:21:48,260
Come back!

151
00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:53,140
Douzi !
we got 2days. .

152
00:21:55,140 --> 00:21:59,810
Don't forget the money
under my pillow.

153
00:22:07,820 --> 00:22:10,990
You're worthless.
Get out of my sight!

154
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:23,960
Where'd you get that?

155
00:22:24,090 --> 00:22:27,170
Forget Shitou.
I'm spending your money now.

156
00:22:28,300 --> 00:22:31,640
Ten apples on each stick.
I'll give you two.

157
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:33,760
What's wrong with you?

158
00:22:33,890 --> 00:22:34,810
I have to pee real bad.

159
00:22:34,930 --> 00:22:38,020
Not in the middle
of the street.

160
00:22:39,940 --> 00:22:41,190
It's Manager Wang !

161
00:22:41,940 --> 00:22:44,820
The stars have arrived !
here, come this way.

162
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:56,660
My dear sir, this is like
a visit from heaven !

163
00:22:59,790 --> 00:23:04,090
All you need to do is sneeze
and you get a standing ovation.

164
00:23:09,380 --> 00:23:12,260
Thanks for coming here.

165
00:23:43,370 --> 00:23:45,420
We'll be lucky if no one
is trampled to death in there!

166
00:23:53,380 --> 00:23:54,680
I'll sit on your shoulders
for a while, then you sit on mine.

167
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,420
The king !
It's the King of Chu!

168
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,920
What does it take
to become a star?

169
00:24:32,970 --> 00:24:35,220
How many beatings?

170
00:24:36,930 --> 00:24:39,760
When I'll ever enjoy
such fame?

171
00:25:14,470 --> 00:25:19,010
You're pissing all over me!
Are you nuts?

172
00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:38,280
I knew you'd go back.
You couldn't live without Shitou!

173
00:25:38,490 --> 00:25:42,990
We're going to get a taste of
the sword. But I'm not afraid.

174
00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:47,500
For me, it's like having
an itch scratched.

175
00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:52,250
I've eaten my candied crab apple.
I'm a fucking star already.

176
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,970
You little runts,
you've come back after all.

177
00:26:00,340 --> 00:26:02,930
Good ! I deserve it!
Good ! I deserve it!

178
00:26:03,010 --> 00:26:06,850
Why the hell did you
Let them go?

179
00:26:17,530 --> 00:26:21,490
Die you runts!

180
00:26:23,330 --> 00:26:26,120
Skipping class and running away
must be punished !

181
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,960
Master, I'll never do it again.
Please let me go!

182
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:34,130
You let them get away?
Assholes!

183
00:26:51,190 --> 00:26:52,150
Master!

184
00:26:53,190 --> 00:26:57,400
I wouldn't dare do it again,
master. I was wrong.

185
00:26:58,990 --> 00:27:00,240
Beat me instead !

186
00:28:01,170 --> 00:28:04,470
Didn't you think youd get yours?
I'll kill you!

187
00:28:06,100 --> 00:28:09,600
Douzi,
speak! Say something !

188
00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:12,440
Beg for mercy!
Say he's beaten you well !

189
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,440
Speak!
Let's just disband the troupe!

190
00:28:28,410 --> 00:28:31,250
Youre killing Douzi !

191
00:28:36,380 --> 00:28:37,670
I won't let you do this!

192
00:28:44,550 --> 00:28:48,180
Master Guan !

193
00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:50,600
Laizi, he-

194
00:29:45,690 --> 00:29:51,120
This opera tells the story of war
between the Chu and han kings.

195
00:29:51,740 --> 00:29:54,790
What sort of a man
was the King of Chu?

196
00:29:55,750 --> 00:29:59,210
A peerless
and invincible hero. . .

197
00:30:00,460 --> 00:30:03,710
a bold and resourceful general
capable of defeating vast armies.

198
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,340
But fate wasn't on his side.

199
00:30:11,470 --> 00:30:13,390
At Gaixia he was outwitted. . .

200
00:30:13,470 --> 00:30:17,730
by the Han king.

201
00:30:18,690 --> 00:30:21,770
As they prepared for battle,
Han's troops sang victory songs. . .

202
00:30:22,770 --> 00:30:26,240
because of Han's military tatics,

203
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:27,610
the Chu armies fed in a
great panic

204
00:30:27,740 --> 00:30:31,740
had their country taken by Han.

205
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,500
Even the king was weeping.

206
00:30:38,790 --> 00:30:41,670
No matter how resourceful
you are. . .

207
00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:45,800
you can't fight fate.

208
00:30:47,510 --> 00:30:50,760
The king had once been
all-powerful, but in the end. . .

209
00:30:51,260 --> 00:30:55,390
all he had left was one woman
and one horse.

210
00:30:55,600 --> 00:31:00,140
He tried to get his steed
to run away, but it wouldn't go.

211
00:31:00,270 --> 00:31:03,690
he wanted his concubine to free,
but she wouldn't.

212
00:31:03,810 --> 00:31:08,150
For the very last time, Concubine
poured wine for her king. . .

213
00:31:08,150 --> 00:31:11,160
and danced for him
with a sword. . .

214
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,660
then cut her throat with it,

215
00:31:14,780 --> 00:31:17,290
to keep her fidelity.

216
00:31:21,210 --> 00:31:25,540
Theres a lesson in this story
for all of us. . .

217
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,260
that each person is responsible
for his or her own fate.

218
00:31:28,460 --> 00:31:32,260
You better keep that
in your mind.

219
00:31:40,810 --> 00:31:48,780
I am so strong,
I can uproot the Mountains

220
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:55,280
My courage is renowned

221
00:31:55,450 --> 00:32:03,250
I've fallen on bad times

222
00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:07,920
Yet even my horse won't
run away to save itself

223
00:32:17,220 --> 00:32:20,220
Old Man Zhang has commissioned
you to hire an opera troupe.

224
00:32:20,350 --> 00:32:23,600
I truly congratulate you.

225
00:32:23,730 --> 00:32:28,320
With your patronage, the children
will have new clothes to wear.

226
00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:34,490
Good opera, however,
is not so simple.

227
00:32:34,910 --> 00:32:37,370
When he was a palace eunuch. . .

228
00:32:37,450 --> 00:32:42,660
Old Man Zhang attended operas
with the Empress Dowager herself.

229
00:32:44,460 --> 00:32:49,300
I could lose a lot of respect.
But that's nothing.

230
00:32:49,420 --> 00:32:52,880
You realize that if the performance
doesn't make the grade...

231
00:32:55,930 --> 00:32:57,510
This kids got something.

232
00:32:58,260 --> 00:32:59,640
How long he's been in training?

233
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,350
Douzi, come here

234
00:33:02,770 --> 00:33:04,810
and pay your respects.

235
00:33:20,620 --> 00:33:22,540
he's got
a nice little figure too.

236
00:33:23,450 --> 00:33:25,330
Can you sing any
old-style operas?

237
00:33:25,460 --> 00:33:27,540
Yes, two.

238
00:33:29,630 --> 00:33:32,760
Fleeing by Night is for male and
outside the Nunnery is for female...

239
00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:34,380
Let's hear a bit of the last.

240
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,720
At sixteen I am a nun. . .

241
00:33:40,810 --> 00:33:46,310
my hair shorn
at youths prime.

242
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,940
Yet I am by nature a boy,

243
00:33:49,650 --> 00:33:53,400
not a girl...

244
00:33:53,530 --> 00:33:55,440
Why-

245
00:33:59,660 --> 00:34:03,290
Mr. Na, I am terribly sorry!

246
00:34:03,450 --> 00:34:06,460
he's usually very good.

247
00:34:08,790 --> 00:34:12,420
Master Guan,
I'll see you some other time.

248
00:34:18,010 --> 00:34:21,600
Open your mouth. open it!

249
00:34:24,810 --> 00:34:28,520
You've screwed it up
for all of us!

250
00:34:29,350 --> 00:34:33,400
I'll teach you.

251
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,390
I am by nature a girl,

252
00:35:09,890 --> 00:35:13,810
I am by nature a girl,

253
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,710
At sixteen I am a nun. . .

254
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,670
my hair shorn at youths prime.

255
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,590
Yet I am by nature a girl,
not a boy.

256
00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:46,100
Why must I wear
these sexless robes?

257
00:35:46,810 --> 00:35:48,600
I see the joyful couples pass. . .

258
00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:55,440
in their splendid brocades.

259
00:35:55,480 --> 00:36:10,830
Despite myself,
desire burns in my heart. . .

260
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:31,730
Year after year
All over the land

261
00:36:31,930 --> 00:36:37,610
I've followed my king
on his military campaigns

262
00:36:38,980 --> 00:36:44,530
enduring the wind
And frost and hard toil. .

263
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:52,120
Our people are fallen
into abyss of misery. .

264
00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:09,180
This little boy. . .

265
00:37:09,970 --> 00:37:11,770
Master Guan. . .

266
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,770
Mr. Zhang, may you live
as long as South Mountain.

267
00:37:23,940 --> 00:37:26,910
The king is here.

268
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:36,420
Your highness

269
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:48,010
The people have suffered
untold hardship and pain

270
00:37:49,220 --> 00:37:58,600
this is an old man Zhan's special

271
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,570
reward for two kids.

272
00:38:05,780 --> 00:38:09,740
So take this.

273
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,200
Yes, sir!

274
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:17,670
The Chu king would
have won with this sword !

275
00:38:17,790 --> 00:38:20,210
If I were emperor,
then you'd be queen of the palace.

276
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,300
Take that sword.

277
00:38:23,590 --> 00:38:26,720
Careful, kidys!

278
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,720
That's a real blade!

279
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:36,100
No need to run !

280
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:40,520
What's wrong?

281
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,110
The sweat stings the scratchs

282
00:38:43,230 --> 00:38:45,780
Have them go together.

283
00:38:46,990 --> 00:38:50,950
No way.
It's an old rule around here.

284
00:38:51,620 --> 00:38:56,200
Master Guan, I'm sorry
if you don't understand.

285
00:38:56,250 --> 00:39:00,710
The concubine has to die
one way or the other.

286
00:39:00,790 --> 00:39:02,080
Isn't it so?

287
00:39:07,970 --> 00:39:08,920
Master?

288
00:39:10,890 --> 00:39:11,720
Douzi !

289
00:39:50,130 --> 00:39:52,800
What year is this?

290
00:39:52,930 --> 00:39:58,100
This is. . . this is 1932.

291
00:39:58,220 --> 00:40:04,020
Wrong !
This is still the Ching dynasty!

292
00:40:06,150 --> 00:40:08,110
Come over here.

293
00:40:10,740 --> 00:40:12,280
I. . . I want to find Shitou.

294
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:14,870
I need to pee.

295
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,420
Pee into this.

296
00:40:29,710 --> 00:40:33,800
Don't waste it.
just pee into this.

297
00:41:12,210 --> 00:41:13,220
Come to me!

298
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,010
Douzi !

299
00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:02,890
What's happened to you?

300
00:42:04,350 --> 00:42:07,900
Have you gone dumb?
Speak to me!

301
00:42:32,460 --> 00:42:34,420
Douzi.

302
00:42:35,210 --> 00:42:38,130
Fate has determined
each of our lots.

303
00:42:39,220 --> 00:42:41,180
Leave him to his destiny.

304
00:43:24,060 --> 00:43:28,180
All right, look at the camera!

305
00:43:39,530 --> 00:43:42,490
Gentlemen, you have done
grandly for yourselves.

306
00:43:42,570 --> 00:43:45,200
You look so dignified and stunning
in any style of clothing.

307
00:43:45,330 --> 00:43:49,160
That's it!

308
00:44:01,590 --> 00:44:04,260
Oppose Japans invasion
of North China!

309
00:44:06,260 --> 00:44:08,930
Damn !
It's those students again.

310
00:44:22,990 --> 00:44:26,240
Down with Japanese imperialism!

311
00:44:26,410 --> 00:44:29,250
Are'nt they the opera actors?

312
00:44:31,290 --> 00:44:34,250
How can you put on make up
and sing opera at a time like this?

313
00:44:34,380 --> 00:44:37,670
Have you no feeling
for your country?

314
00:44:40,170 --> 00:44:45,180
We're Chinese too,
Chinese to the core!

315
00:44:46,220 --> 00:44:48,260
Look at us,
goddamn it!

316
00:44:50,930 --> 00:44:56,690
Chinese mustn't fight
among themselves!

317
00:44:59,020 --> 00:45:01,280
we're all Chinese here!

318
00:45:02,190 --> 00:45:05,280
And don ' t you forget it!

319
00:45:08,990 --> 00:45:11,450
How dare they pretend
to be patriotic!

320
00:45:11,580 --> 00:45:17,590
Why don't they go out
and fight the Japanese soldiers?

321
00:45:18,090 --> 00:45:21,630
Cause you're penniless
for women and marriage. .

322
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:23,220
Do something !

323
00:45:23,340 --> 00:45:27,340
You just want to find
a way out...

324
00:45:28,050 --> 00:45:31,600
The one who was yelling the
loudest would make a good actor.

325
00:45:32,390 --> 00:45:35,310
Remember the first time we
performed Farewell, My Concubine?

326
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,110
Only you remember
that kind of thing.

327
00:45:38,230 --> 00:45:43,320
I know.

328
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:48,660
It was your lucky day
for you.

329
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,160
Back then it was...

330
00:45:51,290 --> 00:45:53,330
I went there yesterday.

331
00:45:53,370 --> 00:45:55,330
I know you've been looking

332
00:45:55,460 --> 00:45:56,710
for the sword, but it's long gone.

333
00:46:04,670 --> 00:46:07,680
Long life for Deyie!

334
00:46:08,430 --> 00:46:11,680
Candied crab apples for sale!

335
00:46:12,430 --> 00:46:15,430
Candied crab apples for sale!

336
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,060
We've got a sea of people.

337
00:46:19,190 --> 00:46:22,570
They're craning their necks
to catch a glimpse of their idols.

338
00:46:23,070 --> 00:46:28,160
Even master Yuan is here to see
you. It's a great honor for us.

339
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:40,710
Go away!
Go away!

340
00:47:00,270 --> 00:47:01,360
Mr. Duan. . .

341
00:47:02,770 --> 00:47:05,780
They're becoming impatient,
please hurry!

342
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:10,240
Trust me.

343
00:47:10,610 --> 00:47:13,620
They won't feel like they are
wasting their money.

344
00:47:29,430 --> 00:47:37,770
Year after year
all over the land

345
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:48,280
I've followed my king
on his military campaigns

346
00:48:01,290 --> 00:48:07,250
You be the judge.
Has he not blurred

347
00:48:07,670 --> 00:48:16,220
I hate only the lawless tyrant
Who plunged our people. . .of misery

348
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:23,560
the distinction between theater
and. . . male and female?

349
00:48:23,770 --> 00:48:25,820
He is now at the level of. .

350
00:48:46,380 --> 00:48:49,800
Your highness

351
00:49:02,770 --> 00:49:06,270
Ive caused you

352
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:15,660
So much grief

353
00:49:21,540 --> 00:49:24,710
So, Master Yuan has come
to see us tonight.

354
00:49:25,710 --> 00:49:30,550
I know. I sang so loudly,

355
00:49:31,260 --> 00:49:33,380
I drowned out the horns.

356
00:49:33,670 --> 00:49:37,640
I'll show him how great
we are without his patronage. .

357
00:49:37,890 --> 00:49:39,350
But Duan. .

358
00:49:39,470 --> 00:49:40,850
Don't worry.

359
00:49:41,430 --> 00:49:43,390
At key moments. . .

360
00:49:43,430 --> 00:49:46,690
I squeezed my waist
with my hands. . .

361
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,360
so it hurts. .

362
00:49:54,450 --> 00:49:55,490
here?

363
00:50:11,590 --> 00:50:13,880
Master Yuan !

364
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:18,010
It's an honor.

365
00:50:30,650 --> 00:50:34,780
You deserve this.

366
00:50:44,790 --> 00:50:51,420
the Empress Dowager herself. . .

367
00:50:51,460 --> 00:50:54,340
never bestowed such a gift

368
00:50:54,460 --> 00:50:56,760
upon her favorite actors.

369
00:51:01,350 --> 00:51:05,520
Master Yuan, how can our Dieyi
be worthy of your favor?

370
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,770
Farewell, My Concubine
has a long history.

371
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:19,700
It evolved from the old-style opera
Story of the Precious one.

372
00:51:20,740 --> 00:51:23,870
Many famous actors
have fallen down in this role.

373
00:51:24,990 --> 00:51:27,540
I've never seen an actor

374
00:51:27,870 --> 00:51:30,920
as great as you are.

375
00:51:36,460 --> 00:51:38,720
Impressive.

376
00:51:44,890 --> 00:51:47,480
For a moment or two. . .

377
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,350
this Yuan fellow
was so entranced. . .

378
00:51:52,690 --> 00:51:55,900
He believed Concubine Yu
had actually come back to life!

379
00:52:01,740 --> 00:52:02,740
Master Duan. . .

380
00:52:03,740 --> 00:52:08,410
When the king returns to camp
and meets Concubine Yu. . .

381
00:52:09,540 --> 00:52:11,420
custom has it-

382
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:19,510
He takes seven steps.
You take but five.

383
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,840
If the King of Chu fails to bear
himself with majestic dignity. . .

384
00:52:23,590 --> 00:52:28,770
He's little better than a gangster
putting on airs!

385
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,690
Master Yuan, you are a master
of the theater arts.

386
00:52:32,940 --> 00:52:37,070
You are an expert in all the
varieties and facets of opera.

387
00:52:39,070 --> 00:52:41,150
I may probably be

388
00:52:41,450 --> 00:52:45,030
as you say.

389
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,120
Please give us the benefit
of your advice and criticism.

390
00:52:50,540 --> 00:52:53,040
If it's not beneath you,

391
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:56,710
I'd like to invite you. . .
to my humble home for some wine.

392
00:52:57,130 --> 00:53:01,760
There is still so much
to be said about this opera.

393
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:05,050
Im terribly sorry, Master Yuan.

394
00:53:05,590 --> 00:53:07,930
I've another drinking
engagement... with a courtesan.

395
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:11,560
With a courtesan...

396
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:20,810
Nice taste you have.

397
00:53:22,150 --> 00:53:23,480
And MR. Cheng?

398
00:53:31,370 --> 00:53:36,250
Then we'll share
our thoughts later. .

399
00:53:37,660 --> 00:53:39,500
Girls! Take care of our guest.

400
00:53:40,330 --> 00:53:41,840
Thank you for coming.

401
00:53:48,260 --> 00:53:51,470
Dieyi ! I am leaving too.

402
00:53:56,810 --> 00:54:01,440
Girls! Come entertain our guest.

403
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,860
MR. Duan, this way please.

404
00:54:05,820 --> 00:54:08,820
Long time no see.
MR. Duan. We've missed you.

405
00:54:12,820 --> 00:54:13,620
I'd like to see Miss Juxian.

406
00:54:13,700 --> 00:54:20,540
Ah, how shall I put it?

407
00:54:20,830 --> 00:54:23,330
You should've said that earlier. .

408
00:54:23,460 --> 00:54:25,920
She's not here at the moment.

409
00:54:26,210 --> 00:54:31,470
What can be done?
how about this?

410
00:54:31,720 --> 00:54:35,680
Caifeng, come keep
MR. Duan company.

411
00:54:51,780 --> 00:54:54,280
I really want to
see her,

412
00:54:55,410 --> 00:54:58,330
Tell me the truth.
Where is Juxian really?

413
00:54:59,870 --> 00:55:01,870
Upstairs?

414
00:55:02,750 --> 00:55:04,580
Or down?

415
00:55:05,420 --> 00:55:09,880
The phoenix roosts on the
highest branches, of course!

416
00:55:10,670 --> 00:55:16,810
But shes pretty high-class.
You reckon she'll go for you?

417
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:22,640
You bet!

418
00:55:22,890 --> 00:55:25,610
I specialize in high-class.

419
00:55:29,780 --> 00:55:31,530
Ah, Miss Juxian-

420
00:55:32,530 --> 00:55:34,570
Bastards!

421
00:55:34,740 --> 00:55:37,910
Okay, we're bastards!

422
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:40,540
You fucking bitch !
How dare you be so picky!

423
00:55:45,380 --> 00:55:47,420
Cut it out!

424
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:50,420
Cause you are pretty!

425
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:54,800
Cut it out or I'll jump!

426
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:59,850
Jump!
I'll follow on your heels.

427
00:55:59,970 --> 00:56:02,730
No matter where you are

428
00:56:04,890 --> 00:56:09,400
even after death, I'll be there

429
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:13,860
Xiaolou!

430
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:34,760
These guys are revolting !

431
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:40,640
They were forcing me
to drink wine from their mouths.

432
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:42,560
Come on, assholes. Jump!
Now its your turn !

433
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:46,060
Bastards! Mother fuckers!

434
00:56:46,350 --> 00:56:50,610
All right, lets go!

435
00:57:08,790 --> 00:57:11,420
Oh, it's MR. Duan !

436
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:16,590
Listen, we're all here to have a
good time. . . spend lots of money.

437
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:21,680
So let's not pick fights, OK?

438
00:57:24,930 --> 00:57:26,430
Eeechhh !

439
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:30,860
Keep out of it, and get lost.

440
00:57:32,900 --> 00:57:34,820
Don't get upset.

441
00:57:35,940 --> 00:57:37,110
Scared?

442
00:57:44,450 --> 00:57:47,830
Juxian, you are to blame.

443
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:51,880
Didn't you tell these gentlemen
todays a special day?

444
00:58:09,100 --> 00:58:11,730
That we decided to announce
our engagement today?

445
00:58:20,820 --> 00:58:21,450
That's right!

446
00:58:22,570 --> 00:58:26,490
Today is the ladys happy day.

447
00:58:27,790 --> 00:58:31,460
Drink a toast to me!

448
00:58:31,830 --> 00:58:35,550
Aren't you going
to offer congratulations?

449
00:59:26,140 --> 00:59:28,930
You think you can fool us?

450
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:33,600
Gentlemen, on this,

451
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:35,560
my happiest day. . .

452
00:59:37,190 --> 00:59:39,150
allow me to drink
to all of you!

453
00:59:42,150 --> 00:59:43,030
And now,
something to sober you up.

454
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:06,850
I heard you got into a fight
at the house of Blossoms.

455
01:00:08,930 --> 01:00:13,640
You know the old story. . .
about Panjinlians husband

456
01:00:14,690 --> 01:00:17,860
Does this mean theres
a PanJinlian in your life?

457
01:00:17,980 --> 01:00:18,770
What are you saying?

458
01:00:18,900 --> 01:00:20,690
What do you want to hear?

459
01:00:20,820 --> 01:00:25,950
I was just fooling around.

460
01:00:27,070 --> 01:00:30,990
Come with me sometime.
You'll see what its like.

461
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:32,950
It'll be exciting.

462
01:00:46,260 --> 01:00:47,890
I'm sorry. I really am!

463
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:51,100
I wasn't thinking.

464
01:00:52,600 --> 01:00:57,060
I really put
my foot in it this time.

465
01:00:58,860 --> 01:01:00,190
I'm a damn fool.

466
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:08,110
Have you forgotten
the secret of our success?

467
01:01:10,990 --> 01:01:12,790
Don't you remember
our teachers words?

468
01:01:15,710 --> 01:01:16,960
Which words were they?

469
01:01:18,750 --> 01:01:20,750
Stick together
until the day you die.

470
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:25,340
I want you to be with me.

471
01:01:25,970 --> 01:01:27,130
How about

472
01:01:28,010 --> 01:01:31,050
we stay together until death?

473
01:01:32,810 --> 01:01:35,730
We've come this far together,
havent we?

474
01:01:35,810 --> 01:01:38,940
It's not enough. Should be a
lifetime.

475
01:01:38,980 --> 01:01:43,070
One day, even one second less. . .
makes it less than a life time!

476
01:01:50,990 --> 01:01:52,120
Dieyi, you really are obsessed.

477
01:01:52,330 --> 01:01:55,620
Your obsession with the stage

478
01:01:56,330 --> 01:02:01,710
Carries over into
your everyday life.

479
01:02:02,290 --> 01:02:06,260
But how are we going
to get through the days. . .

480
01:02:07,300 --> 01:02:09,760
and make it in the real world
among ordinary people?

481
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,390
Give me a hand with my makeup!

482
01:02:40,710 --> 01:02:42,290
Concubine Yu

483
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,380
the song was sung everywhere. .

484
01:02:47,090 --> 01:02:49,300
Out country is being ruined
by the enemy.

485
01:02:49,380 --> 01:02:53,340
Go live out
this goddamn fantasy, then.

486
01:02:54,260 --> 01:02:55,100
My king.

487
01:02:55,220 --> 01:03:01,270
I'll tell you even though
it's heart breaking

488
01:03:03,270 --> 01:03:12,780
Today is the day we
say goodbye

489
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:58,870
you'll become a lady of virtue!

490
01:04:02,370 --> 01:04:04,370
Wake up.
You think

491
01:04:04,500 --> 01:04:08,380
the wolves and tigers

492
01:04:08,460 --> 01:04:11,460
won't recognize
your scent anymore?

493
01:04:13,470 --> 01:04:17,390
I am scared.

494
01:04:19,010 --> 01:04:24,390
Let me tell you something.

495
01:04:25,980 --> 01:04:28,110
Once a whore, always a whore.

496
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:31,900
I'll keep that in my mind.

497
01:04:37,910 --> 01:04:40,490
Fine. See you around.

498
01:04:50,460 --> 01:04:53,170
MR. Duan has presented you
with a pennant.

499
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:57,090
The Beauty ofthe Age.
It reads,

500
01:05:48,140 --> 01:05:51,060
What are you doing here?

501
01:05:55,030 --> 01:05:56,900
What is it, Juxian?

502
01:05:57,030 --> 01:05:59,490
Come on in !

503
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:01,490
No, you come out!

504
01:06:04,620 --> 01:06:08,370
What are you doing barefoot
on such a cold day?

505
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:13,210
What's happened?

506
01:06:14,170 --> 01:06:18,970
The house of Blossoms
won't keep an engaged woman.

507
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:36,150
Come. Let me introduce you.

508
01:06:36,940 --> 01:06:39,450
This is Miss Juxian.

509
01:06:40,450 --> 01:06:42,570
This is my stage brother, Dieyi.

510
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:47,330
You may have seen him
as Concubine Yu.

511
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:53,460
Xiaolou speaks of you so often,
I feel like we were old friends.

512
01:06:54,590 --> 01:06:58,920
MissJuxian.
Excuse me, I must be going.

513
01:07:09,020 --> 01:07:10,270
Xiaolou,

514
01:07:12,350 --> 01:07:13,690
At the house of Blossoms. . .
if you had'nt caught me,

515
01:07:13,980 --> 01:07:18,650
I'd be six feet under by now.

516
01:07:23,410 --> 01:07:27,200
Remember, it was you
who proposed to me.

517
01:07:28,330 --> 01:07:30,210
I'm used to hardship.

518
01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:35,290
If you take me in. . .
I'll wait on you hand and foot.

519
01:07:37,050 --> 01:07:38,670
If you ever abandon me,

520
01:07:40,340 --> 01:07:42,680
I'll ki'll myself.

521
01:07:58,020 --> 01:08:00,030
What a dragon lady!

522
01:08:02,070 --> 01:08:07,330
Whens the performance of. . .

523
01:08:09,370 --> 01:08:13,160
Candle-lit-night
in the Bridal Chamber?

524
01:08:15,380 --> 01:08:17,290
Tonight.

525
01:08:17,340 --> 01:08:20,630
Hold on. I want a formal
engagement ceremony. . .

526
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:25,470
to which the entire company
is invited.

527
01:08:26,140 --> 01:08:28,470
I want to enter your home
as a proper bride.

528
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:32,060
You don't think I plan
to cut corners, do you?

529
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:36,270
The formal engagement
ceremony will be tonight.

530
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:38,400
Gentlemen, we request
the pleasure of your company.

531
01:08:44,490 --> 01:08:46,320
Miss Juxian. . .

532
01:08:47,410 --> 01:08:50,660
where did you study opera?

533
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,620
Me, what makes you think that?

534
01:08:54,370 --> 01:08:58,630
Just the way youre over
playing your part.

535
01:09:03,630 --> 01:09:07,760
Dieyi, shes going to be
your sister-in-law.

536
01:09:08,340 --> 01:09:11,720
Also, at the engagement
party tonight. . .

537
01:09:15,770 --> 01:09:19,730
I have'nt learned the opera
Gangster King and his Whore.

538
01:09:21,570 --> 01:09:22,780
Our teacher never taught us
that one.

539
01:09:23,780 --> 01:09:25,740
What are you talking about?

540
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:29,530
Dieyi, Xiaolou has spoken

541
01:09:29,740 --> 01:09:32,490
good of you.

542
01:09:37,210 --> 01:09:38,170
Don't leave!

543
01:09:42,250 --> 01:09:43,710
Where are you going?

544
01:09:45,550 --> 01:09:49,470
None of your business.

545
01:09:51,260 --> 01:09:52,260
Xiaolou!

546
01:09:54,390 --> 01:09:56,060
Please, don't go!

547
01:09:57,140 --> 01:10:02,270
Master Yuan invites us tonight.
he wants to become our patron.

548
01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:06,530
Who does he think he is?
No one tells me what to do.

549
01:10:08,610 --> 01:10:12,580
I'm just a fake king.
You really are Concubine Yu.

550
01:10:12,740 --> 01:10:14,830
Let him patronize you
if you like.

551
01:10:16,620 --> 01:10:17,790
Xiaolou!

552
01:10:42,310 --> 01:10:46,230
This feather headpiece
is rare and precious.

553
01:10:48,190 --> 01:10:53,660
The feathers are collected
from the tails of live peacocks.

554
01:10:55,370 --> 01:10:57,250
That's the secret. . .

555
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:02,670
to keeping the feathers
soft and colorful.

556
01:11:03,420 --> 01:11:06,170
I'll be waiting for you.

557
01:11:44,420 --> 01:11:46,460
In this world,

558
01:11:46,590 --> 01:11:50,760
there is foulness
in both men and women.

559
01:11:51,300 --> 01:11:55,720
only the bodhisattva embodies
both male and female essences.

560
01:11:59,270 --> 01:12:01,520
Such ecstasy!

561
01:12:17,620 --> 01:12:20,330
This sword has a history.

562
01:12:20,790 --> 01:12:23,920
It once belonged
to the eunuch Zhang.

563
01:12:24,420 --> 01:12:29,380
When Zhang went bankrupt,
I went to great trouble to acquire it.

564
01:12:30,630 --> 01:12:32,760
I can see from this. . .

565
01:12:33,470 --> 01:12:36,890
you're old acquaintances.

566
01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:41,430
Amazing. one searches
far and wide for something. . .

567
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:44,940
Like it?

568
01:12:52,610 --> 01:12:54,570
I-

569
01:12:57,410 --> 01:13:02,160
Let's not have any vulgar talk
of money between us.

570
01:13:04,540 --> 01:13:07,790
A precious sword is the classic gift
for ones most intimate friend.

571
01:13:10,250 --> 01:13:11,460
What do you say?

572
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:16,590
MR. Cheng... wl'll you be
my most intimate friend?

573
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:26,390
The soldiers of Han
have invaded

574
01:13:27,020 --> 01:13:33,780
The songs of Chu
Can be heard on all sides

575
01:13:39,780 --> 01:13:48,960
Since the good king
has lost his fighting spirit

576
01:13:50,540 --> 01:14:00,970
Why should his humble
concubine value her life

577
01:14:06,680 --> 01:14:07,690
Don't!

578
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:10,230
It's a real sword !

579
01:14:30,580 --> 01:14:35,000
A smile ushers in the spring.

580
01:14:37,550 --> 01:14:41,890
A tear does darken
all the world.

581
01:14:43,810 --> 01:14:47,600
How truly does this befit you.

582
01:14:49,440 --> 01:14:50,850
To you. .

583
01:14:53,440 --> 01:14:55,780
only you are possessed
of such charm.

584
01:15:37,110 --> 01:15:40,570
Ah, MR. Cheng.
I knew you'd come.

585
01:15:40,780 --> 01:15:44,660
We saved a seat
at the head table for you.

586
01:15:57,960 --> 01:15:59,590
You came back?

587
01:16:00,630 --> 01:16:05,010
It's a good thing
you showed up.

588
01:16:05,850 --> 01:16:07,100
Have a look at this.

589
01:16:12,390 --> 01:16:13,730
What a sword !

590
01:16:18,730 --> 01:16:23,950
How did you acquire this
out of nowhere tonight?

591
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:40,880
Dieyi, you've come so late.
You better drink up!

592
01:16:41,010 --> 01:16:43,880
Yes, drink up!

593
01:16:53,060 --> 01:16:55,230
My gratitude, Miss Juxian.

594
01:16:56,190 --> 01:16:58,650
Dieyi? MR. Cheng !

595
01:17:01,690 --> 01:17:02,780
Xiaolou. . .

596
01:17:03,700 --> 01:17:08,120
From now on, we'll no longer
perform together.

597
01:17:08,240 --> 01:17:11,870
MR. Cheng, you can't do this!
This isn't- The fans won't-

598
01:17:16,540 --> 01:17:17,580
This is terrible!

599
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:21,500
Japanese troops
have entered the city!

600
01:17:43,940 --> 01:17:46,200
Dieyi. .
Where is Dieyi?

601
01:17:51,120 --> 01:17:55,870
I'll fill up your glass
with finest wine.

602
01:17:59,960 --> 01:18:02,300
Special wine.

603
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:08,720
So what is this wine called?

604
01:18:09,180 --> 01:18:13,350
Wine of overnight
drinking.

605
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:17,140
Fill it up.

606
01:18:17,980 --> 01:18:22,900
Who will be serving me
tonight?

607
01:18:24,730 --> 01:18:29,700
Dieyi looks like lifting
his shoulders up. .

608
01:18:32,030 --> 01:18:38,250
Cause a man's life is meaningless
it's like dream of spring. .

609
01:18:44,340 --> 01:18:48,010
At your disposal. .

610
01:18:49,340 --> 01:18:54,680
I will keep on drinking
until

611
01:18:54,810 --> 01:19:02,270
this night is over.

612
01:20:00,370 --> 01:20:04,000
Don't waste my time
just take it off.

613
01:20:29,110 --> 01:20:31,400
Even if it belongs to your ancestor

614
01:20:31,860 --> 01:20:36,490
you should let him put it on.

615
01:20:36,780 --> 01:20:39,410
Understand me,
low life?

616
01:21:14,990 --> 01:21:17,200
Tell the Japanese
I'll be there right away.

617
01:21:20,990 --> 01:21:23,870
Hold on a moment.

618
01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:27,420
It's not some private party.

619
01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:33,970
They're black mailing you
to sing for them.

620
01:21:34,220 --> 01:21:39,140
On the other hand, you're the
only one. . .who can save Xiaolou.

621
01:21:39,850 --> 01:21:41,850
on the other hand,

622
01:21:44,480 --> 01:21:45,850
If anything happened to you. . .
this theater of mine would-

623
01:21:45,980 --> 01:21:47,940
All right, go then.
MissJuxian, what are you doing?

624
01:21:48,020 --> 01:21:50,520
MR. Cheng isn't at home!

625
01:21:51,570 --> 01:21:53,280
Wheres Dieyi? Dieyi?

626
01:21:53,490 --> 01:21:57,860
hurry! I've heard the Japanese
feed prisoners to their dogs!

627
01:21:57,950 --> 01:22:01,330
If you delay, he might not have
a life to save!

628
01:22:03,370 --> 01:22:04,450
Dieyi !

629
01:22:17,300 --> 01:22:21,510
But you allowed them
to take him away in the first place.

630
01:22:22,390 --> 01:22:26,390
Xiaolou has looked after you
since you were small.

631
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:32,860
What are you saying?

632
01:22:49,420 --> 01:22:54,380
Mr. Na, would you mind
leaving the room for a moment?

633
01:22:54,500 --> 01:22:58,470
I have something to say to Dieyi
in private.

634
01:22:59,090 --> 01:23:03,430
Everyone says Miss Juxian
is quite clever. . .

635
01:23:03,930 --> 01:23:07,560
Were all trying to help Xiaolou.
Talk it over.

636
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:16,150
How about a clear answer?
Are you going or not?

637
01:23:35,210 --> 01:23:36,550
Say something !

638
01:23:45,970 --> 01:23:48,020
I know what's on your mind.

639
01:23:49,480 --> 01:23:51,560
I have a proposal.

640
01:23:52,440 --> 01:23:55,070
If you can get Xiaolou
out of there in one piece. . .

641
01:23:55,650 --> 01:23:59,240
I'll go back
to the house of Blossoms.

642
01:24:00,610 --> 01:24:03,490
I'll keep away from both of you.
hows that?

643
01:24:07,580 --> 01:24:12,960
At the house of Blossoms,
you don't have to worry about much.

644
01:24:15,500 --> 01:24:17,550
Life is a lot simpler there.

645
01:24:24,010 --> 01:24:27,010
Just remember, you said it,
not me.

646
01:24:28,140 --> 01:24:29,470
I give my word.

647
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:54,750
The flowers have blossomed

648
01:24:55,290 --> 01:25:05,180
Their season is past
All has fallen

649
01:25:23,450 --> 01:25:36,000
Only the sun is still the same.

650
01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:48,430
Into ruin and decay

651
01:26:08,370 --> 01:26:09,320
Xiaolou!

652
01:26:09,450 --> 01:26:10,490
My brother!

653
01:26:15,580 --> 01:26:17,330
Xiaolou, are you all right?

654
01:26:17,460 --> 01:26:18,420
Did you sing
for the Japanese?

655
01:26:18,540 --> 01:26:21,420
Theres one called
Aoki genuinely likes opera.

656
01:26:22,670 --> 01:26:23,630
Xiaolou!

657
01:28:09,900 --> 01:28:12,700
All right. Come here!

658
01:28:12,820 --> 01:28:14,700
Let me have another drink!

659
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:17,660
okay. I'll drink one for you.

660
01:29:04,620 --> 01:29:06,920
I think this opera,
Farewell, my concubine. . .

661
01:29:09,630 --> 01:29:11,260
has turned into. . .

662
01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:16,550
Farewell, my king.

663
01:29:16,890 --> 01:29:19,010
The king's really irrelevant.

664
01:29:36,910 --> 01:29:38,320
Drink this.

665
01:29:39,330 --> 01:29:44,540
Your voice
will pierce the heavens. . .

666
01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:51,420
Alright, come.

667
01:30:32,380 --> 01:30:33,920
Forget the opera.

668
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:40,430
Let's just live a quiet life.

669
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:43,680
We'll have
a fat little baby boy.

670
01:30:44,350 --> 01:30:48,480
Then I'll have everything
I want. That's enough.

671
01:30:50,440 --> 01:30:51,820
No more opera.

672
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:27,060
Let's go!

673
01:31:28,100 --> 01:31:30,440
Then, bye.

674
01:31:33,860 --> 01:31:34,980
Give me the money back.

675
01:31:35,940 --> 01:31:39,650
Not the crickets,
my money.

676
01:31:40,700 --> 01:31:45,870
You borrow the money
on your host's credit, right?

677
01:31:51,710 --> 01:31:52,790
Go!

678
01:31:56,960 --> 01:31:59,590
I can't believe such a grown-up
like you is busy playing

679
01:31:59,800 --> 01:32:04,180
with bugs and
not working !

680
01:32:06,560 --> 01:32:08,140
Work?

681
01:32:08,480 --> 01:32:10,520
I'm an actor.

682
01:32:10,560 --> 01:32:15,110
What else can I do other than
acting on stage?

683
01:32:15,190 --> 01:32:17,440
Shall I carry coffins?

684
01:32:21,490 --> 01:32:24,620
You should be satisfied by now.

685
01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:30,000
No need to shout like that!

686
01:32:30,790 --> 01:32:31,960
Here's the money?

687
01:32:33,040 --> 01:32:34,630
What? Don't need it?

688
01:32:36,170 --> 01:32:39,670
I'll apologize
if I were going too far.

689
01:32:41,090 --> 01:32:46,180
Unless you take caution,
they will get you.

690
01:32:47,850 --> 01:32:51,600
The master wants to
see you.

691
01:32:51,850 --> 01:32:54,230
No, I won't.

692
01:33:00,780 --> 01:33:07,740
Look at this sword.

693
01:33:13,670 --> 01:33:16,630
Master, they've
just arrived here.

694
01:33:17,790 --> 01:33:18,880
Who?

695
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:23,970
Dieyi and Xiaolou whom
you've wanted to meet.

696
01:33:24,050 --> 01:33:27,800
What a great fucking honor.

697
01:33:28,010 --> 01:33:30,970
What the hell
they are doing here?

698
01:33:31,100 --> 01:33:37,150
Well, I finally got something
to brag about.

699
01:33:37,190 --> 01:33:38,770
A great fucking honor.

700
01:33:38,900 --> 01:33:43,280
Take your seats there
and bow to me.

701
01:33:43,570 --> 01:33:44,820
Master.

702
01:33:48,830 --> 01:33:54,000
You are finally here.

703
01:33:55,710 --> 01:33:57,170
Dieyi.

704
01:33:58,920 --> 01:34:04,170
Without my help,
you are nobody.

705
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:10,010
And I left the stage.

706
01:34:11,180 --> 01:34:15,640
Now it's your turn to
help me.

707
01:34:19,310 --> 01:34:21,110
Hit me !

708
01:34:29,990 --> 01:34:32,040
Come on !

709
01:34:44,210 --> 01:34:45,840
Douzi !

710
01:34:47,130 --> 01:34:48,970
Xialou!

711
01:34:50,890 --> 01:34:54,310
You are now

712
01:34:55,140 --> 01:34:57,980
all grown up

713
01:35:00,900 --> 01:35:02,190
and

714
01:35:02,730 --> 01:35:06,860
now great
actors with fame

715
01:35:08,660 --> 01:35:11,280
Don't remember your youth?

716
01:35:11,320 --> 01:35:16,120
what's worrying you?
Just hit him hard.

717
01:35:22,000 --> 01:35:26,130
When did I tell you to
look down on me?

718
01:35:26,880 --> 01:35:29,930
Are you going to ruin operas?

719
01:35:31,010 --> 01:35:32,930
It's your fault!

720
01:35:34,310 --> 01:35:36,770
Take this!

721
01:35:38,270 --> 01:35:39,980
I'm to blame.

722
01:35:40,810 --> 01:35:42,110
Blame me.

723
01:35:43,150 --> 01:35:45,320
Wait.

724
01:35:45,360 --> 01:35:47,190
I have to tell you this.

725
01:35:48,070 --> 01:35:50,240
Xialou is my master.

726
01:35:50,360 --> 01:35:53,240
If you want to hit him
you need my permission. .

727
01:35:53,370 --> 01:35:54,280
Knock it off!

728
01:35:54,410 --> 01:35:59,830
I've heard of one bitch,
and it was you!

729
01:35:59,960 --> 01:36:04,170
So you must be the VIP
today, right?

730
01:36:04,290 --> 01:36:06,340
Take your seat.

731
01:36:06,800 --> 01:36:10,720
Feel at home drinking
some tea.

732
01:36:21,310 --> 01:36:26,270
Alcohole, gambling and women. .
and even crickets?

733
01:36:28,360 --> 01:36:32,740
You fucking ruined opera's
tradition !

734
01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:46,040
Nothing's wrong to beat you with
a cigaret stick for your disgrace.

735
01:36:46,840 --> 01:36:49,170
For an opium addicted brother. .

736
01:36:50,010 --> 01:36:52,840
what is the crime?

737
01:36:52,970 --> 01:36:54,050
Juxian !

738
01:36:57,010 --> 01:37:01,980
It's not time for a whore
to interfere. .

739
01:37:03,100 --> 01:37:07,070
Isn't it your way to hear
their excuse?

740
01:37:07,190 --> 01:37:08,190
Shut the fuck up!

741
01:37:08,900 --> 01:37:10,990
Don't be so stupid !

742
01:37:25,040 --> 01:37:29,170
You are such a nice guy!

743
01:37:30,920 --> 01:37:31,840
Hit him!

744
01:37:31,880 --> 01:37:35,090
Unless you become quiet
I'll cut his throat!

745
01:37:38,300 --> 01:37:39,430
Alright.

746
01:37:40,220 --> 01:37:44,390
You kill one taking
two lives!

747
01:37:46,900 --> 01:37:48,440
Your family will be over.

748
01:37:52,860 --> 01:37:55,860
Did you just ask me
to stand up?

749
01:37:59,080 --> 01:38:03,290
Xialou, are you
listening to me?

750
01:38:03,410 --> 01:38:06,880
You are becoming a father.

751
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:09,420
If I stay away from
being an actor

752
01:38:09,540 --> 01:38:14,300
I won't be able to buy
a birthday present for my kid !

753
01:38:15,380 --> 01:38:16,550
Come closer!

754
01:38:20,470 --> 01:38:21,810
Closer!

755
01:38:31,900 --> 01:38:33,320
Practice!

756
01:38:35,240 --> 01:38:36,950
Don't be slacking.

757
01:38:37,530 --> 01:38:40,450
Stretch out your legs!

758
01:38:53,130 --> 01:38:54,550
Wait.

759
01:38:56,930 --> 01:38:59,510
This play is called Anger of Night.

760
01:39:00,050 --> 01:39:03,220
You act Linchou for this.

761
01:39:04,270 --> 01:39:06,310
He's head of the palace guard,

762
01:39:06,430 --> 01:39:08,190
not some sneaky little thief.

763
01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:10,480
Take this.

764
01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:12,110
Attention, everyone!

765
01:39:12,900 --> 01:39:16,530
This is what a great hero
is like.

766
01:39:20,320 --> 01:39:27,000
A man does'nt
lightly shed his tears. . .

767
01:39:28,460 --> 01:39:34,960
Unless his heart has broken.

768
01:40:55,090 --> 01:40:58,460
Leave me alone. I'm just
taking master's purnishment.

769
01:40:59,380 --> 01:41:02,380
The troupe has disbanded.
You leave too.

770
01:41:02,510 --> 01:41:03,720
Master said that you.

771
01:41:04,760 --> 01:41:06,470
Should learn how to endure
to become a great actor.

772
01:41:10,060 --> 01:41:11,600
Everyone else has left.
You ought to go home too.

773
01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:12,640
I was found on the street as a baby.
I've got no other home.

774
01:41:16,520 --> 01:41:18,440
Do you know,
who found you?

775
01:41:18,570 --> 01:41:22,570
No! They said if I knew, ld get
a swelled head and would'nt work hard.

776
01:41:24,280 --> 01:41:25,410
Do you sti'll want
to sing opera?

777
01:41:25,530 --> 01:41:28,620
Yes, even if I have to beg
to support myself! .

778
01:41:33,080 --> 01:41:34,330
What's your name?

779
01:41:36,710 --> 01:41:38,130
Xiao Si.

780
01:41:42,550 --> 01:41:43,550
Xiao Si.

781
01:41:51,310 --> 01:41:53,310
AS CHIANG KAl-SHEKS
NATIONALIST ARMY RETAKES BEIJI NG.

782
01:42:28,430 --> 01:42:35,190
I hear the talk of the soldiers.

783
01:42:51,450 --> 01:42:55,250
Xiao Si, go tell the manager
to avoid trouble.

784
01:42:56,210 --> 01:42:59,580
And it is all about
running away.

785
01:43:08,180 --> 01:43:11,260
What's this?
Why aren't you singing?

786
01:43:23,190 --> 01:43:25,490
Don't make trouble!
Don't go, Xiaolou.

787
01:43:51,430 --> 01:43:56,180
Waving flashlight is not
allowed in the theater.

788
01:43:56,520 --> 01:43:58,810
Even the Japanese
didn't do this sort of thing.

789
01:43:59,310 --> 01:44:02,650
Everyones here for the opera.
Please return to your seats.

790
01:44:07,530 --> 01:44:10,570
Well put.
Back to your seats, everyone!

791
01:44:13,910 --> 01:44:18,460
But can we let him get away
with speaking up for the Japanese?

792
01:44:30,470 --> 01:44:31,590
Xiaolou!

793
01:44:33,260 --> 01:44:34,430
Xiaolou!

794
01:45:09,710 --> 01:45:10,840
Juxian !

795
01:45:22,770 --> 01:45:24,650
We have to get her
to a hospital.

796
01:45:25,270 --> 01:45:27,820
Save her first!

797
01:45:37,490 --> 01:45:41,580
There was only
a minor disturbance.

798
01:45:41,660 --> 01:45:44,540
Are you saying such a big
disturbance is minor?

799
01:45:44,670 --> 01:45:46,960
You can fine us.

800
01:46:05,310 --> 01:46:06,940
Why do you need
to arrest anyone?

801
01:46:07,400 --> 01:46:10,860
The theater's been trashed,
people beaten. . .

802
01:46:19,950 --> 01:46:21,330
and you sti'll want
to arrest him?

803
01:46:23,790 --> 01:46:25,370
What for?

804
01:46:26,710 --> 01:46:29,420
Cheng Dieyi betrayed the country
to the Japanese.

805
01:46:31,880 --> 01:46:32,960
Move it!

806
01:46:33,670 --> 01:46:36,930
On what base?

807
01:46:40,640 --> 01:46:41,930
Teacher, teacher!

808
01:46:43,020 --> 01:46:47,350
MR. Duan, I'm afraid
she's lost the baby.

809
01:46:56,860 --> 01:46:58,410
Honey.

810
01:46:59,530 --> 01:47:01,490
I'm so sorry.

811
01:47:04,040 --> 01:47:05,410
I'm so sorry.

812
01:47:28,770 --> 01:47:34,360
Go, help Dieyi.
If he's more important to you.

813
01:47:34,730 --> 01:47:36,990
I don't know whether Dieyi
goes looking for trouble. . .

814
01:47:37,820 --> 01:47:41,450
or if it's trouble
that comes looking for him.

815
01:47:42,030 --> 01:47:46,910
Whenever you're with him,
my heart's in my throat.

816
01:47:51,630 --> 01:47:53,420
Now that I've lost our child,

817
01:47:55,920 --> 01:47:57,970
you're all I have left.

818
01:47:58,590 --> 01:48:01,930
I don't care if I have to beg
with you on the streets.

819
01:48:03,100 --> 01:48:04,720
All I ask. . .
is peace of mind.

820
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:11,560
If you help him now, we'll
no longer owe him anything.

821
01:48:16,900 --> 01:48:20,450
Don't perform
with him anymore.

822
01:48:20,530 --> 01:48:22,530
Promise me this.

823
01:48:24,950 --> 01:48:30,460
No more performance
after this.

824
01:48:57,820 --> 01:48:58,940
Master Yuan. . .

825
01:49:00,570 --> 01:49:05,080
Dieyi's life is in your hands.

826
01:49:06,160 --> 01:49:11,920
Count this.
If it's not enough-

827
01:49:13,580 --> 01:49:17,170
If only you'll save Dieyi. . .

828
01:49:17,710 --> 01:49:20,510
we'll give all our earnings
for the next three years.

829
01:49:21,880 --> 01:49:25,470
You think I need your money
to keep my birds from starving?

830
01:49:30,890 --> 01:49:31,680
And this gentleman is. . .?

831
01:49:33,980 --> 01:49:35,110
Don't you recognize Xiaolou?

832
01:49:38,530 --> 01:49:41,490
he plays the king
to Dieyis concubine.

833
01:49:44,110 --> 01:49:45,950
Then it should be him
who saves Concubine Yu!

834
01:49:47,780 --> 01:49:50,910
My dear man,
that s only a play!

835
01:49:51,120 --> 01:49:56,130
All Beijing knows that Master Yu
is the true king of the theater!

836
01:49:58,630 --> 01:49:59,880
It's true.

837
01:50:00,210 --> 01:50:03,840
Speaking of which, I'd like to
ask MR. Duan something.

838
01:50:04,880 --> 01:50:08,930
When the king returns
to see Concubine Yu. . .

839
01:50:10,680 --> 01:50:12,270
how many steps should
he take?

840
01:50:16,230 --> 01:50:17,560
Seven.

841
01:50:17,900 --> 01:50:19,270
Show me.

842
01:50:23,650 --> 01:50:24,990
Come on, show me!

843
01:50:26,740 --> 01:50:27,870
Master Yuan.

844
01:50:36,670 --> 01:50:39,130
Is this the honorable home
of MR. Yuan?

845
01:50:42,760 --> 01:50:47,680
When a man called Cheng Dieyi
was arrested, he said. . .

846
01:50:48,180 --> 01:50:49,930
the owner of this sword
would be able to rescue him.

847
01:50:51,930 --> 01:50:55,270
Do you recognize it?

848
01:51:09,200 --> 01:51:13,040
From your expression, I see
I've come to the right place.

849
01:51:14,870 --> 01:51:18,960
Good. I'll put the sword here.

850
01:51:20,710 --> 01:51:24,920
I'm so relieved
to have found its owner.

851
01:51:30,220 --> 01:51:34,060
But sometimes one's hopes
are misplaced.

852
01:51:34,640 --> 01:51:39,020
Master Yuan,
you must'nt blame Dieyi.

853
01:51:43,730 --> 01:51:45,690
I see.

854
01:51:47,200 --> 01:51:50,870
The reason why Dieyi
performed for Japanese

855
01:51:52,080 --> 01:51:53,160
would'nt be by someone's
request, would it?

856
01:51:53,660 --> 01:52:00,380
If it would, he wouldn't
have been arrested.

857
01:52:01,250 --> 01:52:01,880
True!

858
01:52:09,050 --> 01:52:11,050
There's a roomful of reporters
waiting at home.

859
01:52:11,180 --> 01:52:13,850
Xiaolou,
MR. Na, lets go.

860
01:52:14,140 --> 01:52:15,140
Wait, a moment! Let's talk.

861
01:52:24,940 --> 01:52:27,400
Master Yuan asked me
to talk to you.

862
01:52:30,070 --> 01:52:31,660
Tomorrow in court. . .

863
01:52:31,950 --> 01:52:33,870
say the Japanese
put a gun to your head.

864
01:52:33,990 --> 01:52:38,330
Say they tortured you.

865
01:52:39,290 --> 01:52:42,210
Master Yuan has made
arrangements for everything else.

866
01:52:52,430 --> 01:52:54,850
This is from Xiaolou.

867
01:53:04,980 --> 01:53:07,190
Dieyi, don't be angry with us.

868
01:53:07,900 --> 01:53:09,780
Xiaolous child. . .

869
01:53:15,120 --> 01:53:15,910
It's died.

870
01:53:19,950 --> 01:53:22,710
Your karmic partnership
with Xiaolou caused this!

871
01:53:32,840 --> 01:53:37,060
After you get out of here,
just go your own way.

872
01:53:43,900 --> 01:53:46,190
During the resistance

873
01:53:46,440 --> 01:53:49,980
against Japan Cheng Dieyi

874
01:53:50,240 --> 01:53:55,160
betrayed the country by performing
for Aoki and his colleagues.

875
01:53:55,280 --> 01:53:59,200
You performed for their
immorality.

876
01:54:01,370 --> 01:54:04,290
The defendant also
encouraged the enemy

877
01:54:04,370 --> 01:54:07,920
and disgraced
your people.

878
01:54:09,960 --> 01:54:14,380
Aoki continued
to resist even

879
01:54:14,510 --> 01:54:17,890
after Japan officially
surrendered.

880
01:54:18,010 --> 01:54:21,350
We've collected these pictures
as evidence. . .

881
01:54:21,470 --> 01:54:25,020
and they confirm the defendant
sang for the Japanese.

882
01:54:27,150 --> 01:54:34,780
We call on the witnesses Yuan
Shiqing, Duan Xiaolou and Na Kun.

883
01:54:43,200 --> 01:54:47,080
The government has always
been good to me.

884
01:54:48,210 --> 01:54:51,210
Nor would I betray the laws
of heaven or my own conscience.

885
01:54:53,510 --> 01:54:58,850
Cheng Dieyi was taken away
in hand cuffs by the Japanese.

886
01:54:59,350 --> 01:55:03,020
They put a gun
to the back of his neck.

887
01:55:03,930 --> 01:55:06,140
He couldn't help. .

888
01:55:08,100 --> 01:55:09,110
Duan Xiaolou!

889
01:55:09,230 --> 01:55:14,990
It's true. The Japanese
beat up my stage brother.

890
01:55:15,450 --> 01:55:17,360
Exactly as Master Yuan
has just described.

891
01:55:18,490 --> 01:55:18,990
Na Kun?

892
01:55:20,730 --> 01:55:22,230
He-

893
01:55:24,610 --> 01:55:30,200
The prosecutor claims Cheng
performed obscene material.

894
01:55:34,540 --> 01:55:36,580
That is ridiculous!

895
01:55:44,210 --> 01:55:46,470
Cheng performed highlights

896
01:55:46,590 --> 01:55:50,720
from Peony Pavilion
that night.

897
01:55:50,760 --> 01:55:55,640
Anyone with any common
sense knows that. . .

898
01:55:55,770 --> 01:55:58,440
Peony Pavilion is the
quintessential Chinese opera.

899
01:55:58,730 --> 01:56:04,480
How can that be obscene
to the prosecutor's eye?

900
01:56:08,280 --> 01:56:11,410
How dare they insult our
tradition and culture like this!

901
01:56:12,570 --> 01:56:17,750
Who's disparaging
Chinese tradition. . .

902
01:56:19,540 --> 01:56:22,500
and disrespecting its culture?

903
01:56:28,920 --> 01:56:31,430
We ask the accused,
Cheng Dieyi:

904
01:56:32,640 --> 01:56:35,430
Have the witnesses
told the truth?

905
01:56:42,770 --> 01:56:44,270
The court wishes to hear. . .

906
01:56:44,730 --> 01:56:46,730
what the accused has to say.

907
01:56:46,860 --> 01:56:50,820
The accused may say now.

908
01:56:56,790 --> 01:56:57,790
Cheng Dieyi !

909
01:57:02,250 --> 01:57:03,960
I sang for the
Japanese.

910
01:57:06,590 --> 01:57:08,340
I hate the Japanese too.

911
01:57:11,590 --> 01:57:15,930
But they didn't lay
a hand on me.

912
01:57:20,430 --> 01:57:22,690
Cheng Dieyi. . .

913
01:57:23,600 --> 01:57:27,520
You have the right

914
01:57:27,610 --> 01:57:29,820
and duty to clear your name.

915
01:57:31,780 --> 01:57:35,570
Reconsider carefully

916
01:57:36,410 --> 01:57:38,490
and tell us again.

917
01:57:41,290 --> 01:57:43,000
If Aoki had lived. . .

918
01:57:44,460 --> 01:57:48,420
he'd have taken
the Beijing opera to Japan.

919
01:57:53,470 --> 01:57:54,890
Why don't you just kill me?

920
01:57:58,970 --> 01:58:01,520
Master Yuan, Master Yuan !

921
01:58:18,910 --> 01:58:21,950
Please, Master Yuan,
don't leave.

922
01:58:22,660 --> 01:58:24,580
What does it matter?
he's as good as dead.

923
01:58:24,830 --> 01:58:30,630
Master Yuan, you can't go.
If you go, he's finished for sure.

924
01:58:30,840 --> 01:58:32,670
The court has made
its decision.

925
01:58:34,380 --> 01:58:38,850
The case of the traitor
Cheng Dieyi is suspended.

926
01:58:39,850 --> 01:58:44,850
The accused is released
under bond.

927
01:58:46,770 --> 01:58:48,400
Court dismissed !

928
01:58:57,360 --> 01:59:03,620
Dieyi, are you playing
with me, goddamn it?

929
01:59:11,380 --> 01:59:12,670
MR. Cheng.

930
01:59:14,800 --> 01:59:16,090
Good-bye,

931
01:59:21,640 --> 01:59:22,970
This way, MR. Cheng.

932
01:59:50,420 --> 01:59:52,630
The commander has arrived.

933
01:59:55,670 --> 01:59:57,130
Attention !

934
02:00:20,030 --> 02:00:22,450
Chunxiang !

935
02:00:22,450 --> 02:00:26,040
Miss!

936
02:00:26,080 --> 02:00:28,660
How can one know
spring's color. . .

937
02:00:29,120 --> 02:00:38,800
unless one visits
the garden?

938
02:00:40,800 --> 02:00:44,760
Ma, did you get
my last letter?

939
02:00:45,060 --> 02:00:47,930
Everything's fine here.

940
02:00:49,060 --> 02:00:50,940
Don't worry about me.

941
02:00:51,650 --> 02:00:56,780
Xiaolou looks after me.

942
02:00:57,070 --> 02:00:59,990
We rehearse by day

943
02:01:00,820 --> 02:01:03,570
and perform at night. . .

944
02:01:03,660 --> 02:01:06,660
just like before.

945
02:01:07,120 --> 02:01:10,080
The world's not
what it used to be,

946
02:01:10,580 --> 02:01:13,830
but all we ask is
a peaceful life.

947
02:01:13,880 --> 02:01:19,170
We sing
and get paid for it.

948
02:01:20,010 --> 02:01:24,600
What more could
you want?

949
02:01:24,760 --> 02:01:27,060
How about this?
Well done right?

950
02:01:27,680 --> 02:01:31,600
Dieyi, should I mail this to. . .?

951
02:01:31,690 --> 02:01:33,100
The usual address.

952
02:01:36,690 --> 02:01:42,030
All you classic consumptive
heroines burn your letters.

953
02:01:45,200 --> 02:01:46,700
Have you seen this?

954
02:01:47,200 --> 02:01:49,750
Do you want it?

955
02:01:50,250 --> 02:01:52,960
If you don't, I'll tear it up.

956
02:01:53,580 --> 02:01:58,630
I'll tear it up.

957
02:02:00,710 --> 02:02:03,840
I'll do it!

958
02:02:17,690 --> 02:02:18,730
Xiao Si !

959
02:02:20,070 --> 02:02:21,900
I gave Master Duan the sword
returned to you by Master Yuan.

960
02:02:42,260 --> 02:02:45,840
The river's course is twisted,
but in the end it fows to the sea.

961
02:02:45,970 --> 02:02:49,220
But what problem lies between
our concubine and our king?

962
02:02:49,720 --> 02:02:53,640
Talk to each other already.
The Han king enter the city!

963
02:03:07,240 --> 02:03:12,200
1948 THE EVE OF THE
NATIONALIST EVACUATION TO TAIWAN

964
02:03:16,750 --> 02:03:20,130
THE COMMUNISTS HAVE
SURROUNDED THE CITY.

965
02:03:20,210 --> 02:03:25,880
For better or worse, we Manchus
ruled for three centuries.

966
02:03:28,180 --> 02:03:30,680
The Republics only just begun,
and already it's being overthrown.

967
02:03:31,640 --> 02:03:33,890
But even the Communists
have to have opera.

968
02:03:33,970 --> 02:03:37,940
The empire may change hands,
but rest assured. . .

969
02:03:39,150 --> 02:03:41,730
We're just waiting to see
what their money looks like.

970
02:03:43,320 --> 02:03:46,320
Well, do you still want to
fight heir ragtag troops?

971
02:03:47,070 --> 02:03:50,700
Of course, I'll fight them. . .
if they don't behave themselves.

972
02:03:50,820 --> 02:03:54,660
Unless you had
MasterYuans class,

973
02:03:55,080 --> 02:03:59,750
we are capable of
fighting them.

974
02:04:17,850 --> 02:04:19,350
Do you recognize me?

975
02:04:20,150 --> 02:04:21,980
Cigarettes! Buy one!

976
02:04:28,360 --> 02:04:30,280
MR. Zhang,

977
02:04:31,120 --> 02:04:32,700
don't you know us?

978
02:04:33,370 --> 02:04:35,120
Buy a pack!

979
02:04:52,090 --> 02:04:54,850
1949 - THE COMMUNIST PEOPLES
LIBERATION ARMY ENTERS BEIJING.

980
02:04:54,970 --> 02:04:59,350
Song of sorrow and grief
of my king

981
02:05:00,270 --> 02:05:03,940
cause me shed
tears

982
02:05:04,400 --> 02:05:11,320
to console my sadened
heart by sadness. .

983
02:05:12,240 --> 02:05:20,160
I rather dance and
sing a song

984
02:05:21,040 --> 02:05:26,880
of good heart.

985
02:05:27,840 --> 02:05:32,760
A dance for

986
02:05:34,930 --> 02:05:38,350
my king.

987
02:05:43,060 --> 02:05:48,480
Xiao Si, tell him to stay
calm no matter what.

988
02:05:53,280 --> 02:05:58,080
Honorable guests. . .
I'm very sorry.

989
02:06:00,120 --> 02:06:02,790
Today my fellow actor is-

990
02:06:25,440 --> 02:06:27,820
Move forward ! Move forward !

991
02:06:27,940 --> 02:06:31,900
Our army is marching for
the sun.

992
02:06:32,150 --> 02:06:36,030
Stepping on the great mother
land

993
02:06:36,240 --> 02:06:40,080
with hopes of nation
on our shoulders

994
02:06:40,330 --> 02:06:44,250
no enemy can stop us
from our course

995
02:06:46,040 --> 02:06:50,880
MR. Cheng, if you can't take
it, have another smoke.

996
02:06:51,210 --> 02:06:53,380
Xiao Si, go call MR. Duan.

997
02:06:53,510 --> 02:06:54,260
The counter-revolutionary
Yuan Shiqing !

998
02:06:54,260 --> 02:06:56,890
The counter-revolutionary
Yuan Shiqing !

999
02:06:59,430 --> 02:07:03,350
Yuan Shiqing is an enemy
of the People, he must die!

1000
02:07:06,270 --> 02:07:08,480
Death to Yuan Shiqing !

1001
02:07:10,270 --> 02:07:12,860
Be alert!

1002
02:07:15,200 --> 02:07:16,990
Execute Yuan Shiqing !

1003
02:07:17,200 --> 02:07:22,830
Yuan Shiqing
has always opposed. . .

1004
02:07:23,120 --> 02:07:26,500
He has harmed his community
and is guilty of monstrous crimes.

1005
02:07:27,290 --> 02:07:30,130
Only execution can satisfy
the People's anger!

1006
02:07:33,210 --> 02:07:35,550
Down with the counter-
revolutionary Yuan Shiqing !

1007
02:07:38,390 --> 02:07:41,930
Destroy him!

1008
02:07:44,480 --> 02:07:47,310
Down with the tyrant
of the opera world, Yuan Shiqing !

1009
02:08:15,590 --> 02:08:18,930
Satisfy the People's anger!

1010
02:08:22,260 --> 02:08:23,350
Death to Yuan Shiqing !

1011
02:08:25,930 --> 02:08:28,270
Execute Yuan Shiqing !

1012
02:08:28,390 --> 02:08:29,980
Take him away!

1013
02:08:56,380 --> 02:08:59,130
Let me go!
I'll kill them all !

1014
02:09:16,030 --> 02:09:20,070
Stop carrying on !
Listen carefully!

1015
02:09:20,200 --> 02:09:22,610
Keep your voice down.
Let me go! Release me!

1016
02:09:23,320 --> 02:09:24,410
Fuck you!

1017
02:09:29,200 --> 02:09:31,670
Cut it out or I'll hit you!

1018
02:09:56,190 --> 02:09:58,610
How is he?

1019
02:09:58,610 --> 02:10:02,070
We may need to wean him
from the opium slowly.

1020
02:10:03,030 --> 02:10:04,070
Don't go, Xiaolou.

1021
02:10:04,110 --> 02:10:09,080
If he really wants to
overcome his addiction. . .

1022
02:10:48,700 --> 02:10:50,160
It feels like ice.

1023
02:10:55,710 --> 02:10:57,130
Mom!

1024
02:10:58,630 --> 02:11:01,130
The river may get frozen.

1025
02:11:04,340 --> 02:11:05,760
It feels like ice.

1026
02:11:09,680 --> 02:11:11,100
It's getting frozen.

1027
02:11:12,520 --> 02:11:15,690
Mom!

1028
02:11:17,690 --> 02:11:19,110
So cold.

1029
02:11:32,120 --> 02:11:37,460
The sky of the liberated
are as is clear and blue,

1030
02:11:42,710 --> 02:11:43,300
Mrs. Duan !

1031
02:11:45,470 --> 02:11:46,840
Where were you?

1032
02:11:47,470 --> 02:11:48,760
A meeting.

1033
02:11:49,510 --> 02:11:50,800
A meeting?

1034
02:11:58,520 --> 02:12:00,770
Xiaolou,
the whole troupe's come.

1035
02:12:06,740 --> 02:12:08,660
Ah, a costume change!

1036
02:12:12,450 --> 02:12:15,870
Thank you all for coming
to see me. I'm fiine now.

1037
02:12:16,160 --> 02:12:19,420
Sounds easy now.
you didn't see him suffer!

1038
02:12:19,540 --> 02:12:21,380
Dieyi,
get out of bed.

1039
02:12:21,500 --> 02:12:24,420
All of Beijing is waiting

1040
02:12:24,510 --> 02:12:27,510
for the next appearance
of the King and his Concubine!

1041
02:12:28,510 --> 02:12:32,430
It'll be the goddamn golden
hit of a golden era.

1042
02:12:39,350 --> 02:12:43,730
You've asked me to say a few
words. I'm not sure how to put it.

1043
02:12:45,610 --> 02:12:49,530
I think these modern operas
are interesting. . .

1044
02:12:50,490 --> 02:12:53,580
but the costumes
aren't very attractive.

1045
02:12:53,870 --> 02:12:58,210
The backdrops are too realistic.

1046
02:12:58,580 --> 02:13:01,750
Yet Beijing opera puts
great value on ambiance.

1047
02:13:01,790 --> 02:13:05,500
Song recital, movement and
acrobatics are part of this ambiance.

1048
02:13:07,550 --> 02:13:10,340
But with these costumes on,
performance won't look good.

1049
02:13:11,340 --> 02:13:13,720
I know, it really concerns me.

1050
02:13:14,560 --> 02:13:19,940
What do all of you think?

1051
02:13:26,360 --> 02:13:29,530
Are you saying that modern
operas aren't Beijing operas?

1052
02:13:30,570 --> 02:13:33,200
No sound is but a song,

1053
02:13:33,320 --> 02:13:36,580
no movement is but a dance.

1054
02:13:36,870 --> 02:13:40,830
It must have beauty.
For instance-

1055
02:13:40,910 --> 02:13:44,290
Teacher, I don't get it.

1056
02:13:46,750 --> 02:13:50,550
Practice. When you've sweated
enough to fill buckets, you'll get it.

1057
02:13:50,760 --> 02:13:52,300
I still don't understand.

1058
02:13:52,340 --> 02:13:53,340
Xiao Si !

1059
02:13:54,850 --> 02:13:55,760
I just don't get it.
What can I do!

1060
02:13:55,890 --> 02:13:59,480
Why is it Beijing opera when ancient
heroes and beauties take the stage. . .

1061
02:13:59,600 --> 02:14:02,730
but not when
the laboring masses do?

1062
02:14:03,350 --> 02:14:05,480
You're talking apples
and oranges. upstart!

1063
02:14:05,610 --> 02:14:06,900
What kind of attitude is that?

1064
02:14:10,280 --> 02:14:12,660
I'd like to hear
from Teacher Duan.

1065
02:14:12,780 --> 02:14:13,780
Xiaolou!

1066
02:14:21,870 --> 02:14:25,580
It's going to rain.

1067
02:14:26,630 --> 02:14:27,420
I've brought your umbrella.

1068
02:14:35,550 --> 02:14:39,560
Yes, yes,
run along home now.

1069
02:14:53,990 --> 02:14:57,410
Questions like these
give me a headache.

1070
02:14:58,660 --> 02:15:00,290
I say if it uses the traditional
forms,

1071
02:15:00,620 --> 02:15:05,330
then it's Beijing opera.

1072
02:15:06,420 --> 02:15:07,420
Am I right?

1073
02:15:08,000 --> 02:15:10,710
I'd like to say something.

1074
02:15:14,470 --> 02:15:19,930
I've been part of the New Society
since giving my theater to the state.

1075
02:15:21,680 --> 02:15:23,730
Comrade Cheng,
I believe you're wrong.

1076
02:15:26,480 --> 02:15:28,810
Modern opera is a new venture.

1077
02:15:28,940 --> 02:15:32,570
It deserves our support.

1078
02:15:38,700 --> 02:15:42,830
Opera requires practice,
don't think you know it well !

1079
02:15:42,950 --> 02:15:47,670
Opera requires practice, skill
and talent.

1080
02:15:48,460 --> 02:15:49,840
No easy way.

1081
02:15:50,000 --> 02:15:52,550
You're breaking the law.

1082
02:15:53,710 --> 02:15:58,930
You'll always be third-rate.

1083
02:16:01,390 --> 02:16:05,850
And when did you ever
seriously want me to succeed?

1084
02:16:06,480 --> 02:16:09,980
All you've ever wanted
was a coolie, a stagehand. . .

1085
02:16:10,110 --> 02:16:12,940
a follower, a bit player!

1086
02:16:13,730 --> 02:16:15,530
How dare you!

1087
02:16:15,650 --> 02:16:18,990
How you say such rubish !

1088
02:16:23,080 --> 02:16:24,620
Kneel down !

1089
02:16:26,960 --> 02:16:28,370
Master Cheng.

1090
02:16:30,670 --> 02:16:32,000
You won't live to
see the day!

1091
02:16:42,430 --> 02:16:43,470
Xiao Si !

1092
02:16:55,860 --> 02:16:59,070
Go, then ! Be a bit player
your whole life!

1093
02:17:05,040 --> 02:17:06,410
MR. Cheng. . .

1094
02:17:07,160 --> 02:17:11,040
Your saying belongs to
the past.

1095
02:17:12,000 --> 02:17:13,540
Doesn ' t it?

1096
02:17:14,670 --> 02:17:19,170
It's a death in the present day.
If I end up being the third rate

1097
02:17:20,760 --> 02:17:25,890
You won't keep your face.

1098
02:18:11,730 --> 02:18:15,230
So, you know?

1099
02:18:17,860 --> 02:18:20,780
Uh, I just learned myself.

1100
02:18:20,900 --> 02:18:24,160
That's not true, Teacher Duan.

1101
02:18:24,620 --> 02:18:28,040
You were there
at the meeting last night.

1102
02:18:32,790 --> 02:18:36,130
You said you'd notify Dieyi
that you were replacing him.

1103
02:18:36,250 --> 02:18:40,800
I had second thoughts.
I decided you should tell him.

1104
02:18:41,050 --> 02:18:42,970
Don't you agree?

1105
02:18:43,630 --> 02:18:47,810
If you couldn't tell him,
who could?

1106
02:18:51,680 --> 02:18:52,640
Take it off! .

1107
02:18:53,140 --> 02:18:55,150
Take it off! .

1108
02:18:55,270 --> 02:18:57,940
Don't. Don't be like that!

1109
02:18:58,650 --> 02:18:58,980
I won't fucking sing anymore!

1110
02:18:59,270 --> 02:19:01,190
Let whoever wants to
perform do so.

1111
02:19:03,860 --> 02:19:05,740
Xiaolou, you mustn't go.

1112
02:19:13,080 --> 02:19:15,040
Comrade Duan. . .

1113
02:19:24,880 --> 02:19:29,560
That audience is made up
of the laboring masses.

1114
02:19:44,780 --> 02:19:46,910
You decide whether you'll
sing for them or not.

1115
02:19:48,030 --> 02:19:51,160
Xiaolou, the concubine is
on stage.

1116
02:19:54,540 --> 02:19:55,000
You'd better hurry.

1117
02:19:55,120 --> 02:20:04,840
I've followed my king
on his military campaigns

1118
02:20:16,770 --> 02:20:22,690
Enduring the wind and
frost and hard toil

1119
02:20:24,360 --> 02:20:31,030
Year after year

1120
02:20:34,120 --> 02:20:41,290
I hate only the lawless tyrant

1121
02:20:42,090 --> 02:20:53,140
Who has plunged our people
into an abyss of misery

1122
02:21:11,910 --> 02:21:20,080
The people have suffered
untold hardship and pain

1123
02:21:26,300 --> 02:21:31,140
The king has returned to camp!

1124
02:21:33,050 --> 02:21:37,890
I'm here.

1125
02:21:46,070 --> 02:21:49,070
Your highness.

1126
02:22:07,210 --> 02:22:09,170
Thank you very much,
Miss Juxian.

1127
02:22:22,440 --> 02:22:23,480
Dieyi !

1128
02:22:27,110 --> 02:22:28,190
Dieyi, open the door! open up!

1129
02:22:34,870 --> 02:22:38,200
Won't you accept
my apology?

1130
02:22:46,380 --> 02:22:48,210
That little snake

1131
02:22:49,510 --> 02:22:51,760
you rescued...

1132
02:22:51,880 --> 02:22:52,970
He has turned into
a veritable dragon !

1133
02:22:55,430 --> 02:22:57,850
You have to go along with it!
What else can you do?

1134
02:22:59,390 --> 02:23:03,020
No matter what, as you told me,
you have to keep on singing !

1135
02:23:03,440 --> 02:23:07,190
and see what's playing in
the theater of life these days.

1136
02:23:11,900 --> 02:23:15,320
Douzi, listen
to your stage brother.

1137
02:23:15,450 --> 02:23:19,160
Go with the times! I'll still be
the king and you my concubine!

1138
02:23:21,330 --> 02:23:24,330
Why does the concubine
have to die?

1139
02:23:30,170 --> 02:23:31,130
Dieyi,

1140
02:23:32,260 --> 02:23:36,140
why are you so impossible?

1141
02:23:38,260 --> 02:23:40,140
That's the play,
for heaven's sake!

1142
02:24:52,170 --> 02:24:57,090
1966 - THE EVE OF
THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION

1143
02:24:59,470 --> 02:25:02,140
Central People's Radio
will now broadcast. . .

1144
02:25:03,220 --> 02:25:06,980
the decision of the Chinese
Communist Party Central Committee. . .

1145
02:25:07,100 --> 02:25:10,940
regarding the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution. . .

1146
02:25:11,610 --> 02:25:15,190
passed on August 8, 1966,

1147
02:25:16,320 --> 02:25:21,280
The bill for Cultural Revolution
has passed.

1148
02:25:23,280 --> 02:25:26,910
Cultural Revolution will
reconstruct

1149
02:25:27,040 --> 02:25:30,210
people's mind.

1150
02:26:45,450 --> 02:26:48,580
how can you drink
at a time like this?

1151
02:26:49,580 --> 02:26:51,580
I feel like it.

1152
02:26:56,380 --> 02:27:00,340
Anyway, jade cups were
part of the old Society.

1153
02:27:02,470 --> 02:27:06,430
We can't keep them, so we might
as well use them one last time.

1154
02:28:13,250 --> 02:28:14,620
It still won't break!

1155
02:29:07,300 --> 02:29:08,590
I'm so afraid !

1156
02:29:12,430 --> 02:29:15,720
I dreamed I was
on top of a tall

1157
02:29:16,640 --> 02:29:18,440
building alone
amongst the clouds.

1158
02:29:20,350 --> 02:29:24,780
I wanted to jump.

1159
02:29:24,900 --> 02:29:27,440
Jump! I'd catch you.

1160
02:29:30,320 --> 02:29:31,780
You

1161
02:29:33,580 --> 02:29:35,290
weren't there.

1162
02:29:39,670 --> 02:29:43,840
Xiaolou, don't leave me.

1163
02:30:48,610 --> 02:30:50,820
Where did this sword
come from?

1164
02:30:52,910 --> 02:30:55,660
Cheng Dieyi gave it to me.

1165
02:30:55,780 --> 02:30:57,580
How many times
did he give it to you?

1166
02:30:59,620 --> 02:31:00,330
Twice.

1167
02:31:00,700 --> 02:31:03,000
When was the second time?

1168
02:31:03,670 --> 02:31:06,840
Shortly before
the liberation of Beijing.

1169
02:31:06,960 --> 02:31:08,250
Where?

1170
02:31:08,630 --> 02:31:12,840
On. . on the street
in front of the theater...

1171
02:31:12,880 --> 02:31:15,840
What did you say to
each other?

1172
02:31:17,300 --> 02:31:19,350
It was quite chaotic.

1173
02:31:20,850 --> 02:31:22,390
I don't remember.

1174
02:31:22,810 --> 02:31:24,520
Try it.

1175
02:31:26,770 --> 02:31:28,320
We didn't say anything !

1176
02:31:28,440 --> 02:31:29,980
Keep thinking.

1177
02:31:30,360 --> 02:31:33,360
If we did, I can't recall.

1178
02:31:33,820 --> 02:31:37,530
Something about what
you'd do to the Communists?

1179
02:31:39,990 --> 02:31:43,580
No! Certainly not!

1180
02:31:43,960 --> 02:31:45,790
I'd stake my life on it.

1181
02:31:47,330 --> 02:31:49,460
But what if we've got
a witness?

1182
02:31:49,590 --> 02:31:53,340
Who? Bring out the bastard !

1183
02:32:02,770 --> 02:32:03,890
Na Kun !

1184
02:32:06,020 --> 02:32:07,350
What did I say?

1185
02:32:07,770 --> 02:32:10,860
I'll give you a hint.

1186
02:32:12,610 --> 02:32:15,610
Something about
ragtag troops.

1187
02:32:19,370 --> 02:32:22,580
Na Kun !
This is pure slander!

1188
02:32:22,950 --> 02:32:26,290
You reactionary old theater boss!
You only want to protect yourself! .

1189
02:32:26,330 --> 02:32:28,750
You said you'd take on
their ragtag troops.

1190
02:32:28,880 --> 02:32:31,380
No! I never said that!

1191
02:32:33,760 --> 02:32:36,300
What I meant was-

1192
02:32:36,510 --> 02:32:40,970
No, I said nothing at all !

1193
02:32:41,970 --> 02:32:45,680
Mr. Na, help me. Mr. Na!

1194
02:32:49,690 --> 02:32:54,360
you've been smashing bricks
since you were a boy, haven't you?

1195
02:32:55,530 --> 02:32:56,990
Do it for us.

1196
02:32:59,490 --> 02:33:00,450
Do it!

1197
02:33:04,080 --> 02:33:05,410
Come on !

1198
02:33:32,940 --> 02:33:36,650
Duan Xiaolou,
aren't you the King?

1199
02:33:38,900 --> 02:33:42,030
No, I'm not.

1200
02:33:42,070 --> 02:33:43,700
But you've always been
the King, haven't you?

1201
02:33:46,040 --> 02:33:47,710
That's just an opera.

1202
02:33:50,830 --> 02:33:51,710
It's not real life.

1203
02:33:52,130 --> 02:33:55,050
Did you go to brothels
in the old Society?

1204
02:33:56,710 --> 02:33:57,880
Yes.

1205
02:33:58,760 --> 02:34:00,630
Don't you think
that's shameful?

1206
02:34:02,050 --> 02:34:05,510
Yes.

1207
02:34:05,640 --> 02:34:08,850
When you married Juxian,
what was she?

1208
02:34:11,520 --> 02:34:12,730
A prostitute.

1209
02:34:15,770 --> 02:34:16,900
Good.

1210
02:34:18,940 --> 02:34:21,160
Now tell us what we need to know
about Cheng Dieyi.

1211
02:34:21,820 --> 02:34:24,530
Of course, you don't have
to tell us anything.

1212
02:34:24,950 --> 02:34:28,830
You saw what happened
to Yuan Shiqing.

1213
02:34:29,540 --> 02:34:31,330
Make your own decision.

1214
02:34:33,630 --> 02:34:36,420
Sweep away all Cow Demons
and Snake Spirits!

1215
02:34:36,550 --> 02:34:40,380
We will destroy him!

1216
02:34:43,550 --> 02:34:46,970
Cut off the Black hands!

1217
02:34:49,850 --> 02:34:53,560
Uncover the Black Gangs!

1218
02:34:56,860 --> 02:35:00,150
Seize the Black hands that have
infiltrated the cultural world !

1219
02:35:03,030 --> 02:35:06,240
Sweep away all Cow Demons
and Snake Spirits!

1220
02:35:35,060 --> 02:35:36,150
Xiaolou!

1221
02:36:05,010 --> 02:36:07,180
Duan Xiaolou
is the reactionary king !

1222
02:36:08,760 --> 02:36:12,270
Duan Xiaolou and Cheng Dieyi
are anti-Party elements!

1223
02:36:13,180 --> 02:36:14,020
Down with Duan Xiaolou!

1224
02:36:14,180 --> 02:36:16,690
Down with Cheng Dieyi !

1225
02:36:18,310 --> 02:36:21,230
Talk! Talk!

1226
02:36:32,620 --> 02:36:33,700
Talk!

1227
02:36:35,660 --> 02:36:39,960
All right, I'll tell you.
he's totally mad about opera.

1228
02:36:40,090 --> 02:36:42,050
Who?
Make yourself clear.

1229
02:36:45,760 --> 02:36:50,800
Cheng Dieyi !
All he cares about is opera.

1230
02:36:50,930 --> 02:36:54,220
No matter who was in the audience,
which class they belonged to. . .

1231
02:36:54,350 --> 02:36:57,770
he'd still give it his all.

1232
02:36:58,650 --> 02:37:03,230
You're not being straight
with us!

1233
02:37:03,860 --> 02:37:07,360
If you don't give in,
we will annihilate you.

1234
02:37:12,740 --> 02:37:18,120
At the start
of the War of Resistance. . .

1235
02:37:19,330 --> 02:37:24,710
he sang for
the Japanese.

1236
02:37:29,340 --> 02:37:31,140
He was a. . . a. . . a traitor!

1237
02:37:31,260 --> 02:37:33,310
Down with Cheng Dieyi !

1238
02:37:36,810 --> 02:37:41,270
He sang for wounded
Nationalist soldiers. . .

1239
02:37:41,770 --> 02:37:44,400
He sang for capitalists,
landlords, the idle rich. . .

1240
02:37:44,690 --> 02:37:49,950
He sang for the tyrant of
the opera world, Yuan Shiqing !

1241
02:37:50,070 --> 02:37:52,070
Down with Cheng Dieyi !

1242
02:37:53,200 --> 02:37:54,870
What else?
Tell us.

1243
02:37:57,080 --> 02:38:00,750
He smoked opium like
there was no tomorrow.

1244
02:38:00,870 --> 02:38:05,960
he smoked away the blood ,
sweat of the laboring masses.

1245
02:38:06,010 --> 02:38:08,010
Keep going.
Get to the point.

1246
02:38:08,840 --> 02:38:10,840
Speak!

1247
02:38:12,050 --> 02:38:13,800
Down with Cheng Dieyi !

1248
02:38:33,780 --> 02:38:36,830
In order to get
on Yuan Shiqing's good side-

1249
02:38:39,290 --> 02:38:42,750
he- Did. . .
you or did you not?

1250
02:38:45,170 --> 02:38:48,090
he became Yuan Shiqing's- his-

1251
02:38:49,720 --> 02:38:50,800
Didn't you? Didn't you?

1252
02:38:50,920 --> 02:38:52,890
You were- were- his-

1253
02:38:53,010 --> 02:38:54,800
Right!

1254
02:38:58,270 --> 02:39:01,060
Sweep away all Cowdemons
and Snake Spirits!

1255
02:39:05,900 --> 02:39:09,150
Scholars and Beauties,
Kings and Ministers,

1256
02:39:33,380 --> 02:39:34,470
You've all betrayed me!
Betrayed me!

1257
02:39:38,390 --> 02:39:39,310
I've got something
to unmask as well !

1258
02:39:46,020 --> 02:39:47,400
I'll reveal everything.

1259
02:39:48,190 --> 02:39:52,950
Why do you think you sang
for the Japanese?

1260
02:39:54,200 --> 02:39:57,070
You're a shell of a man.

1261
02:39:57,200 --> 02:40:01,080
Xiaolou, you've no conscience.

1262
02:40:01,200 --> 02:40:04,330
You are as greedy as a wolf,

1263
02:40:04,420 --> 02:40:09,250
From the moment you got
involved with this woman. . .

1264
02:40:09,880 --> 02:40:12,090
I knew you were fiinished.

1265
02:40:13,130 --> 02:40:17,260
You think disaster just falls
from the sky?

1266
02:40:17,430 --> 02:40:20,100
No.
No way.

1267
02:40:20,970 --> 02:40:26,310
We have come step by step
towards this fate.

1268
02:40:26,440 --> 02:40:28,230
It's retribution.

1269
02:40:29,400 --> 02:40:31,900
I'm despicable, and I have
been so for a long time.

1270
02:40:32,860 --> 02:40:36,070
But now even the King of Chu
is on his knees begging for mercy!

1271
02:40:37,280 --> 02:40:41,700
Can Beijing opera survive?
It's doomed, is it not?

1272
02:40:44,250 --> 02:40:45,790
This is what's called
retribution !

1273
02:40:47,000 --> 02:40:48,920
Karmic retribution !

1274
02:40:50,210 --> 02:40:52,050
And I have something else
to unmask.

1275
02:40:53,130 --> 02:40:53,960
See that woman?

1276
02:40:56,760 --> 02:41:00,220
Who is she?
I'll tell you.

1277
02:41:02,220 --> 02:41:05,140
Slut!

1278
02:41:05,310 --> 02:41:09,270
Top whore at the house of
Blossoms! Panjinlian !

1279
02:41:10,440 --> 02:41:13,320
Whore!
Fight against her!

1280
02:41:17,030 --> 02:41:20,240
Fight against her to the death !

1281
02:41:25,620 --> 02:41:28,500
Duan Xiaolou, is it true
she was a prostitute?

1282
02:41:29,580 --> 02:41:31,460
Well, was she?

1283
02:41:32,500 --> 02:41:33,000
Tell us!

1284
02:41:34,920 --> 02:41:36,010
Yes.

1285
02:41:38,510 --> 02:41:40,970
Do you love her?

1286
02:41:41,390 --> 02:41:42,510
Do you?

1287
02:41:51,060 --> 02:41:53,360
No.
No, I don't love her!

1288
02:41:55,070 --> 02:41:56,320
Is this the truth?

1289
02:41:56,440 --> 02:41:59,150
Really!
I really don't love her.

1290
02:41:59,280 --> 02:42:01,160
I'll never have anything to do
with her again.

1291
02:42:04,990 --> 02:42:07,290
Nothing at all.

1292
02:42:09,040 --> 02:42:11,210
From now on,
we got no relation.

1293
02:43:54,270 --> 02:43:55,730
Juxian !

1294
02:44:16,500 --> 02:44:22,670
Listen to Grandma
and talk of revolution.

1295
02:44:23,380 --> 02:44:29,220
If sprit gets excited
body gets tensed

1296
02:44:53,120 --> 02:45:05,720
Han's troops take our
land. .

1297
02:45:07,470 --> 02:45:18,190
Chu's on on all the side.

1298
02:45:50,890 --> 02:45:55,390
My king, quickly give me
your precious sword.

1299
02:45:56,890 --> 02:45:58,440
No!

1300
02:45:58,600 --> 02:46:03,570
You mustn't take your life!

1301
02:46:05,190 --> 02:46:08,860
My king, quickly give me
your precious sword.

1302
02:46:09,780 --> 02:46:11,570
No, you must not do this!

1303
02:46:19,670 --> 02:46:21,290
To hard.

1304
02:46:23,340 --> 02:46:24,380
I'm old.

1305
02:46:26,630 --> 02:46:27,630
Catching my breath. .

1306
02:46:41,730 --> 02:46:44,730
I'm a num.

1307
02:46:49,900 --> 02:46:54,830
My hair is shorn
at youth's prime.

1308
02:46:55,080 --> 02:46:56,700
I am by nature a boy...

1309
02:46:56,830 --> 02:46:58,330
not a girl.

1310
02:46:58,790 --> 02:47:00,580
Wrong !

1311
02:47:11,800 --> 02:47:14,220
I am by nature a boy. .

1312
02:47:16,510 --> 02:47:18,640
not a girl.

1313
02:47:23,350 --> 02:47:26,400
Let's do it again.

1314
02:47:28,690 --> 02:47:32,780
My king give your sword
to your concumbine.

1315
02:47:34,820 --> 02:47:36,330
No way!

1316
02:47:36,450 --> 02:47:41,500
I can't let you die.

1317
02:47:42,960 --> 02:47:46,880
Your sword.

1318
02:47:46,960 --> 02:47:49,420
Nonsense!

1319
02:47:51,380 --> 02:47:55,010
I won't.

1320
02:47:57,390 --> 02:48:02,560
Han's troops are
entering the city.

1321
02:48:02,690 --> 02:48:04,650
Where?

1322
02:48:35,680 --> 02:48:37,590
Dieyi !

1323
02:48:44,690 --> 02:48:45,980
Douzi. .

1324
02:49:01,580 --> 02:49:02,700
In Beizing 1990. .

1325
02:49:02,830 --> 02:49:05,580
an opera performance
was held to commemorate. .

1326
02:49:05,710 --> 02:49:07,500
200 years of Beizing opera.