East Palace, West Palace (1996)
东宫西宫
Master and servant…
A heterosexual Beijing policeman and a young homosexual challenge each other's sexuality.
- Date of release
- 1996-11-11
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (27)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Zhang Yuan
Casting
- Si Han — Ah Lan
- Hu Jun — Xiao Shi
- Liu Yuxiao — Female Thief
- Zhao Wei — Female Classmate
- Wang Quan — Young Ah Lan
- Ye Jing — Teenage Ah Lan
- Zhao Xiaoyu — Cop
Interesting facts
East Palace, West Palace is a 1996 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan, starring Hu Jun and Si Han, and based on a short story by writer Wang Xiaobo. It is also known as Behind the Forbidden City or Behind the Palace Gates.
Production
The film was shot in the spring of 1996, when it was smuggled out of China for post-production in France. The film was produced by Christophe Menager, Christophe Jung, and Zhang Yuan, executive produced by Willy Tsao, associate produced by Zhang Yukang, and edited by Vincent Lévy, with sound by Wu Gang, Shen Jiaqin, and Bruno Lecoeur, music by Xiang Min, and art direction by An Bing; its director of photography was Jian Zhang.
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