Peking Opera Blues (刀馬旦), Hark Tsui, 1986

The film is set in 1913 Beijing, during Yuan Shikais presidency of the Republic of China. It depicts the adventures of a team of unlikely heroines: Tsao Wan, a patriotic rebel who dresses as a man; Sheung Hung, a woman in search of a missing box of jewels; and Pat Neil, the daughter of a Peking Opera impresario.