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Released
1993 · FILM

Farewell My Concubine

A gifted Peking‑opera performer strives to master his art and win the heart of his beloved while China’s relentless revolutions tear apart his world, forcing him to choose between loyalty, identity, and survival.

“The passionate triangle of two lifelong friends and the woman who comes between them!”

Directed by
Kaige Chen
Written by
Pik Wah Lee, Wei Lu
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
171 min
Language
ZH
DramaMusicRomance
Streaming on
  • MUBI
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

In an epic tale of theater, gender, love, and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Xiaonan PeiShot by Changwei GuScored by Jiping ZhaoDesigned by Yuhe Yang

Box Office

1993 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$6.4M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$6.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $5.2M — 82% of worldwide · International: $1.2M (18%)

Re-release box office

202318 theaters
$382K($414K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Ba wang bie jide
  • Bàwáng Bié Jīde
  • Lebewohl, meine Konkubinede
  • Ba wang bie jien
  • Bàwáng Bié Jīen
  • Farewell My Concubineen
  • Adiós a mi concubinaes
  • Adieu ma concubinefr
  • Addio mia concubinait

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