The soundtrack, on the other hand, is a light breeze next to the heavy selections we’ve made so far.

It was, however, a waste of his talent as an out-of-box-thinking filmmaker - check out his earlier, more experimental works like AV and Exodus. Hong Kong director Pang Ho-cheung’s romantic comedy inspired by the city’s smoking ban gave him a big break on the mainland. The soundtrack also features several famous Peking Opera and Kunqu songs performed by Wen Ruhua, a top operatic singer and Leslie Cheung’s Peking opera instructor in the film. True to form, his pieces are heavy and operatic with the exception of the final song from Taiwan’s Sandy Lam and Jonathan Lee that is a tender love ballad. Composer Zhao Jiping was behind several Fifth Generation films including Zhang Yimou’s Raise The Red Lantern (1991) and To Live (1994). Chen Kaige’s Cannes-winning epic gathers some of the brightest stars from popular music and Peking opera spheres. As the notes of guqin gently echo between the dialogue and atmospheric sounds in each track (divided by scenes), the listener is skillfully drawn into the world of the movie’s protagonists. This soundtrack album, composed for Ma Liwen’s emotional drama centring on an art student and her elderly landlord, brings Dou and his frequent collaborators Kai Shuo and Wu Na (collectively known as a project called Mu Liang Wen Wang 暮良文王) together for an instrumental meditation on Beijing’s peaceful hutongs. Known as the frontman of pop metal band Black Panther and, in entertainment circles, Mandopop superstar Faye Wong’s ex-husband, Dou Wei’s music is regarded as critically untouchable. Green Snake’s soundtrack is a collection of operatic scores and love ballads inspired by traditional Han Chinese instrumentations (mostly from the Song Dynasty) and Buddhist music offering a real flavour of exoticism. The relationships are further complicated, as if that was necessary, by the scheming Buddhist monk Fat Hoi. Tsui Hark’s underrated 1993 period drama, an adaption of classic Chinese fairytale The Legend of Madame White Snake (白娘子传奇), tells the story of two lycanthropic snake sisters (one white one green) journeying to the world of humans and falling in love with two moral men. There is, unfortunately, a serious lack of Chinese rock ‘n’ roll films (besides the rather disappointing Beijing Rocks) which, in the West, have long been reliable sources of great movie soundtracks.

Taiwanese and Hong Kong films tend towards gentle, sweet tunes to convey more subtle sentiments.

Their movies, especially the big-budget blockbusters, favour orchestral scores to leave the viewer breathless with emotion during key scenes. Original film soundtracks have never been considered a potential source of profit by mainland Chinese filmmakers.

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