The Lost Kingdom

The Lost Kingdom

李香秀Hsiang-Hsiu LEE
1999
  • Taiwan
98min
Colour
  • 16mm

The Lost Kingdom

Synopsis

The Lost Kongdom is the story of the rise to fame and the gradual disappearance of the "Kung Yue Society", a well-known Taiwanese opera troupe. It is also the story of Chen Cheng-san, the entertainment mogul behind Kung Yue Society's success. With the Kuomintang's enforced use of Mandarin language, and with the advent of television, Chen's kingdom began to decline and was eventually dissolved.