According to Youku, Farewell My Concubine is a literary film produced by Tomson Pictures and adapted from Li Bihua's novel of the same name, directed by Chen Kaige, written by Li Bihua and Reid, and starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and ZhangFeng yi. Farewell My Concubine tells the joys and sorrows of two Peking Opera actors for half a century, and shows their thinking and understanding of traditional culture, human living conditions and human nature.