The Peony Pavilion

Directed by Chen Kuo Fu
Production and costume design by Tim Yip


Peony Pavilion is a Kun opera film based on the play written by Tang Xianzu during the Ming Dynasty, set in the last days of the Southern Song Dynasty. Du Liniang – the teenage daughter of a stately household – falls in love with a young scholar (later revealed to be Liu Mengmei) she encounters in dream, but whom she has in reality never met. Unable to recover from the loss of her love, she wastes away and dies. But the lord of the underworld decrees that her marriage to Liu Mengmei is predestined. After Du Liniang appears in his dreams, Liu Mengmei exhumes her body, and she is resurrected.