Synopsis
Romeo and Juliet meet Yentl in this sumptuous musical adaptation of one of China’s most famous folk tales. Zhu Yingtai, a beauty who so yearns for an education that she disguises herself as a boy in order to attend school. There she mets the dashing Liang Shanbo, a young man played by Ivy Ling Po. The gender-bender role-playing is traditional when it comes to Chinese opera, but there is nothing old fashioned about the superlative screen treatment given to this all-time classic.