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In order to maintain a hierarchy and a gendered division of labour, a prominent feature of the Renaissance era, women and men needed to be distinct. Cross-gender acting disrupted gender distinction. Male-to-female cross-gender actors were either viewed as shameful, or they gained wealth and social status when playing women who married well-off men.
The Monkey King is a 2014 Chinese-Hong Kong film directed by Cheang Pou-soi and stars Donnie Yen as Sun Wukong. The movie depicts Wukong's rebellion against Heaven. The Monkey King 2 is a 2016 sequel to the 2014 Chinese-Hong Kong film The Monkey King directed by Cheang Pou-soi and stars Aaron Kwok as Sun Wukong, replacing Donnie Yen from the ...
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The King of Masks (1996) – A Chinese girl poses as a boy in order to get adopted by an elderly man. Liang Po Po: The Movie (1999) – Jack Neo cross-dressed as an elderly woman. Baran (2001) – An Iranian boy falls in love with a young Afghan refugee, who must dress as a boy to keep her job at a construction site.
The Cave of the Silken Web (Chinese: 盤絲洞) is a 1967 film directed by Ho Meng Hua and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong. The film is based on an episode from the 16th-century classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. [1] The film is the third of a series of four films based on Journey to the West.
Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese-Hong Kong epic historical drama film directed by Chen Kaige, starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi.Adapted for the screen by Lu Wei, based on the novel by Lilian Lee, the film is set in politically tumultuous 20th-century China, from the early days of the Republic of China to the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution.
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It is also considered the first Asian animated feature film. The film is based on an episode of the 16th-century novel Journey to the West. It was directed in Shanghai under difficult conditions in the thick of World War II by Wan Guchan and Wan Laiming (the Wan brothers) and was released on November 19, 1941. The film later became influential ...