“A unique blend borrowed from such diverse conventions as a 1930s screwball comedy, a Hitchcock espionage thriller, and a Peckinpah/James Woo guns and guts fest … there is never a dull, confusing, or wasted moment.”
—The Austin Chronicle

The setting is Beijing in 1913. The colorful, bustling Peking Opera is presented as a macrocosm of the culture at large, complete with political and romantic intrigues among the performers and audiences. Tsui Hark’s follow-up to SHANGHAI BLUES is a perfect combination of farce, romance, and political subversion.