As much a cultural touchstone as it is an exemplar of the Huangmei opera genre, this classic of classics sucks you into its overt melodramatism and a heartrending story of everlasting love as a woman dressed as a man in order to attend university meets another man.
A somewhat convoluted but still intriguing Chinese spy mystery set during WWII as agents and double agents conspire to accelerate or derail Japanese progress in the war.
A sprawling historical epic set during China’s Warring States period as one king oppresses another king and his people—there’s a sense of tragic grandiosity to the overwrought melodrama while this shorter restored version is still too long.
Eternality Tan 