In the early years of the Republic of China, the country was in turmoil and the warlord regime led to the decline of people's livelihood. Cao Yun (Brigitte Lin) is the daughter of Cao (Ceng Jiang) and a loyal patriot, but she doesn't want to see her father help Yuan Shikai borrow huge sums of money from foreign banks in the name of the country, which makes the national finance worse. However, one side is the country and the other is the father, which makes Cao Yun fall into an inner struggle. Bai Niu (Sally Yeh) grew up in a troupe; Hong Xiang (Cherie Chung) is a greedy geisha. The three met under the coincidence of marriage, and through the interweaving of the lives of the three protagonists, * * * composed a patriotic Peking Opera blues.

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"Beijing Opera Blues" is called "Tsui Hark's excellent work combining art and entertainment", and Tsui Hark himself said that "Beijing Opera Blues" was his masterpiece in the 1980s. The bizarre experiences of three different classes of women are quite lively. One is for money (Cherie Chung), the other is for ideals (Sally Yeh), and the other is for the country (Brigitte Lin). A political conspiracy, three women in troubled times, Brigitte Lin disguised herself as a man again.