For producer Hsu Feng, was a major and complex production. The film was financed from Hong Kong and shot in various locations in China. The film is set in several cities in North-Eastern China such as Changchun, Harbin an in the huge port of Yingkou and spans the period from the occupation of China by Japan to the present day ! about fifty years, will all the consequences for costumes, sets and props. The scale of this historical drama can be compared with the later Hsu Feng production Farewell to my Concubine. is about the writer Zhaohwa, who as a girl was locked up by her father to prevent her meeting her lover. Her later love life was also tragic to a certain extent; the man of her choice had collaborated with the hated Japanese.
- Director
- Yim Ho
- Country of production
- Hong Kong
- Year
- 1990
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 1995
- Length
- 94'
- Medium
- 35mm
- International title
- Red Dust
- Language
- Cantonees
- Producers
- Pineast Pictures Ltd., Tomson International Entertainment Distribution Ltd., Feng Hsu
- Sales
- Tomson International Entertainment Distribution Ltd.
- Screenplay
- Yim Ho
- Cast
- Maggie Cheung, Yim Ho