Not seen in Hong Kong for many years, A Strange Woman was Li Pingqian's first film at Great Wall Film Studio. Adapted from the play La Tosca by French playwright Victorien Sardou, opera star Xiao Xiangshui (Bai Guang) helps her lover, a revolutionary, to escape from warlords. She finesses with both the head of the secret service (Yan Jun) and her lover's wife, but things do not turn out as planned. Li changed his usual pace to encompass a more conventional and dramatic film plot. Bold and flirtatious in her role, Bai Guang is equally over the top in appearance as Yan Jun. The tension in winning the heroine over drives the plot more than the themes of patriotism and loyalty in love.
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Bai Guang
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Yan Jun
Warlord
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Li Ping-Qian Director · Yao Ke Screenplay
First release January 17, 1950 · Produced in Hong Kong SAR China · Original title Yi dai yao ji
Production
Great Wall Pictures Corporation
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Hong Kong SAR China
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Original title
Yi dai yao ji
Original language
Chinese
Spoken on screen
Chinese
Release dates
Hong Kong SAR China · January 17, 1950
Theatrical · Source: IMDb
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