one of the great thing about many of the superb chinese movie you can find and if you be lucky and in the video store and be they be very accurate retellings of actual and true story . farewell and my concubine and the emperor and the assassin and this movie be perfect example . the film maker take a true story and work hard to accurately create a movie without compromise the fact for dramatic or commercial convenience the hallmark of much hollywood and and especially disney film . in this story we follow the late year of an famous local street performer dub the king of mask for his mastery of sichuan change art . along an have lose his only son many year earlier and he search to find a male heir to carry on his rare and die art in a society that forbid female to have such work . master wang be sell a son by a slave trader . all be well a he joyfully prepare to pass down his art . but the son eventually be find out to be a girl . from there and the story get very interesting and with a good performance by master liang of the sichuan opera a regional operatic style relate to peking opera . fan of farewell my concubine should look carefully at master liang portrayal of a male play the female role in chinese opera . it may help them come to understand that the player of these female role be probably not homosexual or castrato and but people who have be so psychologically condition a to be totally unaware of their own sexuality .