FOREVER ENTHRALLED 梅蘭芳 2008 (Hong Kong Movie) DVD ENGLISH SUBTITLES (REGION 3)

FOREVER ENTHRALLED 梅蘭芳 2008 (Hong Kong Movie) DVD ENGLISH SUBTITLES (REGION 3)

Cast: Leon Lai, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Hong 
Director : Chen Kaige
Language : Mandarin
Subtitles : English, Traditional Chinese
System : NTSC
Disc Format : DVD
Screen Format : 2.40:1
Sound System : Dolby Digital 5.1
Publisher : Deltamac Taiwan

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Synopsis:

In 1938, Mei Langfang's good friend, Qiu Rubai, stood at Mei Lanfang's sickbed. For decades, he got along with Mei as brothers and almost as enemies. Qiu suddenly found out that it took him a lifetime to understand Mei. He told Mei: Now I understand. You wanted to be an ordinary man. Maybe you're always an ordinary man...

Mei Lanfang was born in 1894 to a family of Beijing Opera performers. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the social status of opera performers was no better than that of prostitutes. Although Mei Lanfang's grandfather, Mei Qiaoling, was appreciated by the court, he had to perform on stage half-naked because he played the roles of women. After he satisfied the audience, what he got was disdain. Mei Langfang grew up in such a family and, like his grandfather, he also played women roles. Mei Lanfang's uncle told him that there was a punishment in the court which yoked the erred actors with a paper cangue and made them hold level a bow of water with their enclosed and raised hands. Whoever broke the cangue would be clubbed to death. A paper cangue became the symbol of the opera artists. They were subject to the possibilities of being killed by all kinds of "clubs", and Mei Lanfang was one of them.

清末，生於梨園世家的幼年梅蘭芳，目睹最愛惜他的伯父，因戲子的身份在宮中飽受侮辱含恨以終，遺言梅脫離戲行。

轉眼間，少年的梅(余少華)已是初露頭角的旦角，遊學回國的才子邱如山(孫紅雷)被其吸引，甘願放棄官職脫離家族；一對知己並肩改革京劇，且導致梅和前輩十三燕(王學圻)的新舊派打擂台式較量，為戲迷所津津樂道。

步入中年的梅(黎明)名氣越來越響，與邱的距離卻越來越遠，只因孟小冬(章子怡)的出現。孟是反串老生的能手，與梅在台上剛好性別互換，一個婀娜一個陽剛。二人情投意合，卻傷透了邱和梅的妻子福芝芳(陳紅)的心，這段情最後竟因一宗企圖暗殺梅的血案告終。
梅背負著傷痛的心情和無比的壓力，遠渡重洋到紐約演出，他的憂傷、痛苦和夢想化入戲中的女子，深深觸動了陌生的美國觀眾；如雷掌聲，十次謝幕，梅將中國京劇帶進世界。