Hu Du Men (1996) 虎度門 (Region 3 DVD) (English Subtitled) aka Stage Door

Region Coding: Region 3 (Locked)

Starring:  
Josephine Siao 蕭芳芳
Anita Yuen 袁詠儀
Waise Lee 李子雄
Chung King Fai 鍾景輝
Daniel Chan 陳曉東
Louise Lee Sze Kee 李司祺
David Wu 吳大維
Lee Heung Kam 李香琴

Director:  
Shu Kei 舒琪

Audio Tracks:  
Dolby Digital 5.1

Languages:  
Cantonese 粵語, Mandarin 國語

Subtitles: 
English, Traditional Chinese 繁體中文字幕, Simplified Chinese 簡體中文字幕

Running Time:  
99 minutes

Distributor:
Panorama (HK)

Release Date:
26 March 2021

Synopsis:
In traditional Chinese theatre there is an imaginary line that separates the stage from the real world. This line is called the Hu-Du-Men. When an actor crosses this line all sense of “self” must be left behind as the actor becomes the role.

In Shu Kei’s film Hu-Du-Men, the traditions of Cantonese theatre are often at odds with today’s changing values. As owner and popular star of her theatre company, Lang Kim Sum (Josephine Siao) strives to revitalize the traditional art. She hires western-educated stage director David Lam (David Wu) whose Broadway style of staging and effects stir resentment and jealousies within the company. Lang has her hands full on the other side of Hu-Du-Men. Her conservative husband is planning to move the family and his struggling business to Australia against the wishes of Lang and Mimi, his teenage daughter from a former liaison. The strained relationships are not helped when her husband is outraged to discover Mimi is having a lesbian affair and blames Lang for neglecting her.

When Ip Yuk Sheung (Anita Yuen), a talented young actress from Singapore joins the company she finds she has to come between Ip and her brutal alcoholic father as Ip has to take over a principal role at the last moment. The situation becomes more complicated by the arrival of Ip’s boyfriend Chun (Daniel Chan) and her discovery that he is her own illegitimate son. Meanwhile, in the tradition of theatre all over the world, the show must go on.

「虎度門」指粵劇裡演員出場的台口，跨過虎度門，意味著全身心交予戲。

冷劍心（蕭芳芳　飾）是一代粵劇名伶，馳騁舞台三十載，粉絲簇擁眾多。面對丈夫事業失敗，想帶全家移民澳洲，劍心要面臨是否就此離開舞台的抉擇。同時劍心也被家務事纏身，女兒又竟然談了個「女朋友」，就算她在台上反串生角，也令她難以接受這個事實。此時又遇上劇團新晉小花旦葉玉霜（袁詠儀　飾），劍心看重她的潛質，又目睹她被養父打罵，起了憐惜之心收下她做乾女兒；而從加拿大追著前來看望玉霜的小男友阿俊（陳曉東　飾），被證實是劍心當年在南洋的私生子，帶出她當年為了舞台放棄撫養兒子的舊事……

告別場演出，台下坐著並不知情的兒子，哽咽著無法上台的冷劍心，終於收下淚水踏出虎度門……