Film

Woman Demon Human

1987 · 1h 48m · Drama

IMDb

7.1

The fictional life and career of a famous actress in Chinese opera, a woman who goes against tradition by specializing in playing male roles, especially that of Zhang Kui, a benevolent ghost who appears in several Chinese operas. Although the actress's career brings wealth and fame, it is attained only through considerable struggle against an anti-female system and an unhappy personal life.

Li Baotian

Qiu's Father

Xu Shouli

Qiu Yun

Ji Qilin

Teacher Zhang

Yanling Pei

Li Cun

Shi Yuan

Li Di

Song Yining

Qinggang Liang

An Debao

Feifei Wang

Qiu Yun (child)

Lin Gong

Qiu Yun (teenager)

Changjun Wang

Qiu's mother

Shouhe Zhang

Back of head (mother's lover)

Naicheng Ren

Liu Qiang

• Huang ShuqinDirector · Writer
• Guoxun SongWriter
• Zhiyu LiWriter
• Hongsheng JiDirector of Photography
• Lixing XiaDirector of Photography
• Hongsheng XuDirector of Photography
• Mao YangOriginal Music Composer

Release date

March 9, 1987

Status

Released

Original language

Chinese

Runtime

1h 48m

Genres

Drama