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The Peony Pavilion

 

  Directed by Kuo-fu Chen

Taiwan 1995 / Drama / 100 min / Color / Dolby 2.0/ 1.85: 1  Widescreen / NTSC /  In Chinese  Mandarin with  Optional English and Chinese Subtitles


Pen-yu Chang, Tien Hsin, Rene Liu


A teenager called Li Li, always got the same dream. In the dream, she falls in love with a scholar. She finds satisfaction in the dream whereas she feels disillusion in the reality and led her became insane. Accidentally, she saw the scholar in an advertisement. But, when she starts to find him, she died in an accident...

An infamous singer called Yuk Mui, moved into Li Li's apartment coincidentally. From then on, she always got the same dream as Li Li's. The dream redeems her unhappiness in reality, but also led her cannot confront her failure in love and career, so she commits suicide. Actually Li Li's soul is staying in the apartment, she get into Yuk Mui's body...