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A lush, lyrical fable back the modernization of China, TEMPTRESS MOON is the story of Zhongliang (Leslie Cheung), a Shanghai hoodlum raised on the royal sylvan position of the powerful, opium-addled Pang family. As a small fry, Zhongliang, promised the life of a swat, becomes instead a servant for his sister and her cure-addicted husband and a comrade for Ruyi (Gong Li), the female legatee to the Discomfort family. A permanent outsider, Zhongliang escapes the painful decadence of the Malaise household and becomes a smooth-talking mobster, seducing women in the jazz-saturated clubs of 1920s Shanghai, but he is phony to face his past when hired to seduce and abduct Ruyi in a criminal go to gain control as surplus the intermittently vulnerable Pang estate. What begins as a customary seduction becomes more knotty when Zhongliang finds himself unable to escape his true feelings payment Ruyi and crippling memories of his burning childhood. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle revels in the eclectic visual spectacle of a tradition-bound China cracking and hatching its version of the jazz age. Li and Cheung metamorphose into in inspired performances, their palpable onscreen chemistry igniting director Chen Kaige’s magnificently detailed reliable epic.