Temptress Moon

What the heart hides, the moon reveals.

Temptress Moon — Plot

Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.

• Release date
• May 9, 1996
• Runtime
• 130 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• Chen Kaige

Temptress Moon — Cast

Leslie Cheung Yu Zhongliang Gong Li Pang Ruyi Kevin Lin Pang Duanwu He Saifei Yu Xiuyi Chang Shih Li Niangjiu Liankun Lin Pang An Ko Hsiang-Ting Elder Qi Jie Zhou The Woman of Zephyr Lane