--- title: 'The Dream of the Red Chamber (1977)' type: 'film' director: 'Li Han-hsiang' released: '1977-10-26' runtime_minutes: 108 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Music' - 'Romance' countries: - 'British Hong Kong' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-dream-of-the-red-chamber-1977' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075959/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Dream of the Red Chamber (1977) 1977 · 108 min · Drama, Music, Romance · British Hong Kong ## Synopsis The Dream of the Red Chamber is a 1977 film adaptation of the 18th-Century Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin with the same name. It stars Brigitte Lin as protagonist Jia Baoyu, and Sylvia Chang as his cousin Lin Daiyu. The film is told in the style of Huangmei Opera, and follows the style's tradition of cross-gender acting, where a female actor portrays a male character. This is the second adaptation of the novel from the Shaw Brothers, the first being Dream of the Red Chamber (1963) starring Betty Loh Ti. ## Credits - **Director:** [Li Han-hsiang](https://cinepixo.com/people/li-han-hsiang) - **Screenplay:** [Li Han-hsiang](https://cinepixo.com/people/li-han-hsiang) ## Cast - [Hu Jin](https://cinepixo.com/people/hu-jin) as Wang Xifeng - [Yueh Hua](https://cinepixo.com/people/yueh-hua) as Jia Zheng - [Wang Lai](https://cinepixo.com/people/wang-lai) as Grandmother Jia - [Niu Niu](https://cinepixo.com/people/niu-niu) as Jiang Yuhan - [Brigitte Lin](https://cinepixo.com/people/brigitte-lin) as Jia Baoyu - [Kara Hui](https://cinepixo.com/people/kara-hui) as Sheyue - [Ouyang Sha-Fei](https://cinepixo.com/people/ouyang-sha-fei) as Lady Wang - [Sylvia Chang](https://cinepixo.com/people/sylvia-chang) as Lin Daiyu - [Deborah Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/deborah-lee) as Zijuan - [Michelle Yim](https://cinepixo.com/people/michelle-yim) as Xue Baochai ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-dream-of-the-red-chamber-1977 Film facts: Wikidata (Q15914723); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.