A blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years he broke the 1000th string.
Direction
Chen Kaige's Fifth Generation poetry before commercial compromise.
Cinematography
Glorious northern China landscapes as moral weight.
Writing
The cruel beauty of the master's original lie.
Director
Chen Kaige
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chen Kaige made this between his international breakthrough Yellow Earth and the Palme d'Or-winning Farewell My Concubine.
The film adapts Shi Tiesheng's novella; Shi was a wheelchair-bound writer whose own disability informed the story's exploration of bodily limitation and spiritual transcendence.
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