until see mabel cheung song jia huang chao ( the soong sister in english ) and i have never even heard of the soong sister . the movie do a really good job focus on their childhood lead to the establishment of the republic of china and and then the sister association with important figure in china history . ching ling ( maggie cheung ) marry sun yat sen and may ling ( vivian wu ) marry chiang kai shek and and ai ling ( michelle yeoh ) marry h. h. kung and although his role be minimize . large portion of the movie seem to be about the visuals and a we see the elegant setting in which the sister grow up . the film come out the same year that hong kong get return to china and so it might have have the aim of get the two off to a good start . of course and they have to include line very favorable to the prc and namely represent before and we be slave of old china . now and we be slave of slave of old china . overall and this one could appropriately accompany a showing of steven spielberg empire of the sun . i certainly recommend it . also star winston chao and hsing kuo wu and zhenhua niu and elaine jin and wen jiang .