critiQs

Login Sign-up
The King of Masks

The King of Masks

#
Drama
📜 Overview: Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy loner aching for a male descendent to learn his rare and dying art.
🌏 Languages Available: Mandarin
📆 Date Released: 1995-06-09
⌚ Running Time: 102 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 7.375

Beloved Cast

Zhu Xu original image
Wang Bianlian
Zhu Xu
Zhou Ren-Ying original image
Doggie
Zhou Ren-Ying
Zhao Zhi-Gang original image
Liang Sulan
Zhao Zhi-Gang
Zhang Rui-Yang original image
Wen Tian Ci
Zhang Rui-Yang
Chen Li original image
Ms. Wen
Chen Li
Wong Siu-Kei original image
Slave Trader
Wong Siu-Kei
Dung Kin-Laam original image
Ci's Wet Nurse
Dung Kin-Laam
Pan Hong original image
Li Xiang
Pan Hong
Tang Gao-Qi original image
General Liu
Tang Gao-Qi
Gao Yuchang original image
Bureau Chief Huang
Gao Yuchang
Tian Zhonghe original image
Wine Shop Boss
Tian Zhonghe
Jia Zhaoji original image
Slave Trader
Jia Zhaoji

Similar Movies

7.095
Movie Name : Once Upon a Time in China
Release Date : 🕔 1991-08-15
Average Rating: 7.095
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Set in late 19th century Canton, this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary martial arts hero …

7.5
Movie Name : The Road Home
Release Date : 🕔 1999-10-16
Average Rating: 7.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how …

7.115
Movie Name : Red Cliff
Release Date : 🕔 2008-07-10
Average Rating: 7.115
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han …

5.5
Movie Name : Our Ten Years
Release Date : 🕔 2007-09-29
Average Rating: 5.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow …

7.1
Movie Name : John Rabe
Release Date : 🕔 2009-04-02
Average Rating: 7.1
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

6.5
Movie Name : Airport
Release Date : 🕔 1970-03-25
Average Rating: 6.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up …

6.0
Movie Name : The Delinquent Season
Release Date : 🕔 2018-04-27
Average Rating: 6.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In Dublin, two couples (Jim and Danielle; Yvonne and Chris) are seemingly living in marital bliss. However, when Chris's behaviour …

5.0
Movie Name : Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Release Date : 🕔 1993-09-17
Average Rating: 5.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.

0.0
Movie Name : Tonight and Every Night
Release Date : 🕔 1958-04-02
Average Rating: 0.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Orphan He Yongnian was brought up by Zheng Mu, the owner of a small shop, and he was childhood sweetheart …

6.97
Movie Name : The Emperor and the Assassin
Release Date : 🕔 1998-10-08
Average Rating: 6.97
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a …

6.4
Movie Name : Red Road
Release Date : 🕔 2006-10-27
Average Rating: 6.4
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never …

7.477
Movie Name : Blind Shaft
Release Date : 🕔 2003-02-12
Average Rating: 7.477
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep …

7.938
Movie Name : Farewell My Concubine
Release Date : 🕔 1993-01-01
Average Rating: 7.938
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years …

6.775
Movie Name : The Good Son
Release Date : 🕔 1993-09-24
Average Rating: 6.775
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin …

8.0
Movie Name : Earth: Muted
Release Date : 🕔 2021-09-20
Average Rating: 8.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Three farming families in Hanyuan, China, strive to give their children a good life in the midst of an ecological …

6.0
Movie Name : Love is a Fairy Tale
Release Date : 🕔 1993-10-07
Average Rating: 6.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In this 1993 Hong Kong film, a boathand (Aaron Kwok) falls in love with a supermodel (Rosamund Kwan) he sees …

7.2
Movie Name : The Sand Pebbles
Release Date : 🕔 1966-12-20
Average Rating: 7.2
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the …

0.0
Movie Name : Her Sister's Keeper
Release Date : 🕔 1963-05-18
Average Rating: 0.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : To put her younger sister Huilan (Margaret Tu Chuan) through college, Huilian (Grace Ting Ning) became a taxi dancer and …

Comments (0)