GREEN SNAKE

Hong Kong | 1993 | 35mm | 99 min. | Mandarin with English subtitles
Director: Tsui Hark
Cast: Joey Wong, Maggie Cheung, Wenzhuo Zhao
A visually dazzling allegory of what it means to be human, Green Snake reimagines the classic Chinese folktale of two snake spirits (Wong and Cheung) who take human form and challenge the rigid principles of a Buddhist monk. Director Tsui Hark blends irony, sensuality, comedy, and mythic spectacle in a movie that has been called “Brilliant” (Film Comment) and “Radically fantastical!” (San Francisco Chronicle). 35mm print courtesy Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.