Top Cast
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Huang Lei
Hsu Shaodong
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René Liu
Wei Ying Er
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Leon Dai
Huang Zilei
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Yin Chao-te
Lin Chung
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Gua Ah-leh
Wei's Mother
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Shu Yaoxuan
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Zhong Weihua
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Ronald Chin Han
Overview
Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters, each involved with a performance of the opera Fleeing by Night in a local theatre.
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