Shadow Magic (2000)

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116 min - Drama | History | Romance - 22 November 2001 (Australia)

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Ratings: 7.3/10 from 590 users Metascore: 66/100
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Cast overview:
	Jared Harris	...	Raymond Wallace
	Yu Xia	...	Liu Jinglun (Liu Zhonglun)
	Yufei Xing	...	Ling
	Peiqi Liu	...	Master Ren (Ren JingFeng)
	Liping Lü	...	Madame Ren
	Jingming Wang	...	Old Liu
	Yusheng Li	...	Lord Tan (Tan Xinpei)
	Yukui Zhang	...	Lao Chang
	Chuang Cheng	...	Mi Hu
	Zhongwei Zheng	...	Fu Guan
	Qi Mu	...	Jewelry Tower
	Qingzhuo Fang	...	Widow Jiang
	Bin Li	...	Empress Ci Xi

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Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. Liu's work with Wallace brings him conflict with tradition and his father's authority, complicated by his falling in love with Ling, daughter of Lord Tan, star of Beijing's traditional opera. Liu sees movies as his chance to become wealthy and worthy of Ling. When the Shadow Magic pair are invited to show the films to the Empress Dowager, things look good. But, is disaster in the script? And, can movies preserve tradition even as they bring change? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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22 November 2001 (Australia) See more »

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Xi yang jing See more »

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$19,772 (USA) (8 April 2001) (5 Screens)

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$149,258 (USA) (1 July 2001)

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Beijing Film Studio, C & A Productions, Central Motion Pictures Corporation See more »

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Jewelry Tower: We can't escape what drives us.
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References Long Hard Slope (1905) See more »

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