A well-crafted Joseon Dynasty palace saga in which a royal consort is thrown into a merciless game of thrones, "The Concubine" seduces by way of a slow but ultimately gratifying plot reversal. A ...

Nude scenes in Jung Ji-woo’s “Eungyo” and Im Sang-soo’s “The Taste of Money” recently generated an obscene amount of media frenzy. Added to this is the new release “The Concubine,” the promotion of ...

Epic, grandiose and beautiful, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine follows the lives of two fictional Peking opera stars from the warlord era to the end of the Cultural Revolution. Although Chen ...

A Scene from the film of 'Farewell My Concubine' (1993). Photo: IC Announced by the well-known US musical composer Jason Robert Brown via Twitter, a new musical project adapted from the classic ...

`Farewell My Concubine,” which shared the Cannes Grand Prize this year with “The Piano,” is an “art film” that’s also a huge, gorgeous, crowd-pleasing spectacle. Yet it’s about subjects you wouldn’t ...

Joan Chen was only a teenager when she was awarded China's equivalent of the Oscar. Americans know Chen best for her roles in the TV series Twin Peaks and the film The Last Emperor. She is honored at ...