Fifth-generation Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige’s “Farewell My Concubine” wowed the Cannes jury under president Louis Malle in 1993 — all the way to a Palme d’Or win. But by the time the three-hour epic ...

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 ...

A still from director Chen Kaige's 1993 film "Farewell My Concubine." (Courtesy Film Movement Classics) Unavailable for years except via bootlegs and old, out-of-print Miramax DVDs, director Chen ...

You’d be hard-pressed to find a film covering more historical tumult than Farewell My Concubine, a deeply felt blurring of the line between art and performer. Director Chen Kaige’s masterwork follows ...

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 ...

True, Fabrizio Bracciolini’s nose was nearly severed. But then the story gets murky. He was on his way to confession that Holy Thursday, said the cavalier, when he was ambushed by five men: Mariotto ...

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 ...

The King of Thailand, Maha Vajiralongkorn, stripped his new mistress, Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, of all her titles, just months after she was granted the honors. Drama in #Thailand: King ousted his ...