UW Cinematheque - New Restorations and Special Presentations
Green Snake | Hong Kong | 1993 | 35mm | 99 min. | Mandarin with English subtitles Director: Tsui Hark
Event Details
Date
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Joey Wong, Maggie Cheung, Wenzhuo Zhao.
A visually dazzling allegory of what it means to be human, Green Snake reimagines the classic Chinese folktale of two snake spirits (Wong and Cheung) who take human form and challenge the rigid principles of a Buddhist monk. Director Tsui Hark blends irony, sensuality, comedy, and mythic spectacle in a movie that has been called “Brilliant” (Film Comment) and “Radically fantastical!” (San Francisco Chronicle).
A visually dazzling allegory of what it means to be human, Green Snake reimagines the classic Chinese folktale of two snake spirits (Wong and Cheung) who take human form and challenge the rigid principles of a Buddhist monk. Director Tsui Hark blends irony, sensuality, comedy, and mythic spectacle in a movie that has been called “Brilliant” (Film Comment) and “Radically fantastical!” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-3627 or email ben.reiser@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Saturday, April 11, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.