Peony Pavilion 2001

In a beautiful pavilion in 1930's Suzhou. Cui Hua (Rie Miyazawa) is a famous songstress courtesan, marrying into the noble house. She develops a dubious relationship with a female cousin of the family and also being admired secretly by her butler. Rong Lan (Joey Wang), the cousin, is a modern strict and nice teacher who wants to be independent and serves her country, but when she meets the charismatic Xing Zhi Gang (Daniel Wu), an official from the North, all her plans go astray, But these two women's love bears no fruit with their men and in the end they have only each other to lean on.