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Shadow Magic (2000)

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User Rating: 7.5/10 (440 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Ann Hu
Writers:
Yixiong Chen (writer)
Ann Hu (writer)
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Release Date:
22 November 2001 (Australia) more view trailer
Genre:
Drama | Romance
Plot:
Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins more
User Comments:
Sweet fable more

Cast

 (Credited cast)

Jared Harris ... Raymond Wallace
Yu Xia ... Liu Jinglun (Liu Zhonglun)
Yufei Xing ... Ling
Peiqi Liu ... Master Ren (Ren JingFeng)
Liping Lu ... 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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Fang Qing Zhou ... Widow Jiang
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Xi yang jing (China: Mandarin title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for brief mild language.
Runtime:
Canada:116 min (DVD version) | Japan:115 min
Language:
English | Mandarin
Certification:
Australia:PG | USA:PG
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References Chang ban po (1905) more

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Sweet fable, 14 November 2001
7/10
Author: GPeoples-2

This looks a lot like the Once upon a Time in China series and is set in the same never-never-land of red and gold and processions and dragon masks. In fact, it plays like a footnote to those films. I imagine a lot of Chinese must object to the promulgation of such a touristy, quaintly exotic view of their country, but as one of the Westerners at whom it is aimed, I find it glamorous rather than patronizing. It is a good setting for this fable about the introduction of movies to China. Movie fables always look false to me because the primal love and awe with which audiences are shown responding to the magical images on the screen are primarily a moviemaker's self-inflating fantasy, but this movie has a sweetness and directness that enable it to carry off the trick. It is like a good children's story. Of the two leads, the British one is okay, but the Chinese one is truly likable, and as a result so is the film.

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