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Green Snake is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama directed by Tsui Hark released in france in DVD on 17 april 2001 with Maggie Cheung

Green Snake (1993)

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Green Snake
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Release in DVD in france 17 april 2001
Length 1h38
Directed by
OriginHong kong
Genres Drama,    Science fiction,    Fantastic,    Fantasy,    Action,    Romance
Rating71% 3.596163.596163.596163.596163.59616

Green Snake (青蛇, literal Chinese title: The Teal/Green Snake) is a 1993 Hong Kong fantasy film made by Tsui Hark. It is the adaptation of a novel of the same title by Lilian Lee.

The novel itself is a variation of a Chinese folk tale Madame White Snake, where Lillian Lee tells the story from the perspective of Xiaoqing, the Green Snake, who normally plays a supporting role behind the main character Bai Suzhen, the White Snake. As the title suggests, the movie also features Xiaoqing as the main character.

Synopsis

Two snake spirits have been training for many centuries to take human form and experience the love, freedom and wisdom that is supposedly only available to humans. White Snake (Joey Wong) is the more experienced one and proceeds to get engaged to local scholar Hsui Xien (Wu Hsing-Kuo), with whom she plans to have a child which would complete her passage into the mortal realm. Green Snake (Maggie Cheung) is the younger and more impulsive of the two sisters, and she is not yet quite convinced of the benefits of the human world. The two snakes move into their magically created house and start a successful medical practice in the town.

Actors

Maggie Cheung

(Green Snake)
Joey Wong

(Sou Ching / White Snake)
Chiu Man-cheuk

(Fa-Hai / Faat Hoi)
Wu Hsing-kuo
Tien Feng

(Spider Who Have Attained Human Form)
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