Fleeing by Night

Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters, each involved with a performance of the opera Fleeing by Night in a local theatre.

Cast

Huang Lei

as Hsu Shaodong

René Liu

as Wei Ying Er

Leon Dai

as Huang Zilei

Yin Chao-te

as Lin Chung

Gua Ah-leh

as Wei's Mother

Shu Yaoxuan

Zhong Weihua

Ronald Chin Han

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