Rouge | Blu-ray (88 Films)
On January 20, 2025, 88 Films is releasing the Blu-ray (Region B) for for Rouge, a 1987 film directed by Stanley Kwan (Centre Stage) and produced by Jackie Chan (Miracles).
Cantopop superstars Anita Mui (Drunken Master II) and Leslie Cheung (Double Tap) display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan.
Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple (Alex Man Chi-leung and Emily Chu Bo-yee) into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself. With its lush mise-en-scène and transcendently melancholy mood, this sensuous ghost story is an exquisite, enduringly resonant elegy for both lost love and vanishing history.
Features
- INCLUDES ‘In Memory of Willie Chan’ LIMITED EDITION ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET WITH NOTES BY THORSTEN BOOSE
- INCLUDES LIMITED EDITION O-RING SLIPCASE
- 4K Director Approved transfer from the Original Camera Negative
- High Definition Blu-rayTM (1080p) presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
- 2.0 Cantonese Dual Mono
- 5.1 Cantonese Surround Sound
- Newly translated optional English subtitles
- Another Kind of Chinese Ghost Story – An Interview with Director Stanley Kwan
- Archive Interview with Director Stanley Kwan
- Trailer
- Stills Gallery
- Reversible sleeve with brand-new artwork from Yu-Ming Huang & original Hong Kong poster artwork
This title will soon be available at The Goodie Emporium, a U.S.-based online store that currently has many Import Shaw Brothers/Golden Harvest/martial arts DVD/Blu-ray movies in-stock – with New titles being added regularly!
Enjoy the film’s Trailer below:
