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Temptress Moon

1997 · Chen Kaige · Hsu Feng | Sunday Sun | Tong Cunlin · 2 hr 10 min

Not far from Shanghai, in a country town stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older brother, Zhengda, is addicted as well, and then paralysed and effectively brain-dead. Zhongliang, Zhengda's brother-in-law, is a successful gigolo in Shanghai who seduces older married women and then blackmails them. When Older Master Pang dies, the clan elders make Ruyi take over the role as the head of the household. Zhongliang returns to the Pang family on the death of Old Master Pang, re-encounters Ruyi, and they are secretly attracted to each other. Wanting to seem sophisticated, she succumbs to Zhongliang's attempts to seduce her. But then an emotional maelstrom follows - for the angry, jealous and sexually frustrated sister (Zhengda's wife) is also part of the picture.

Drama Foreign Language Romance
Cast Salaries

Cast Salaries

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Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Leslie Cheung 1997 $181,650 $364,319 (est)
Gong Li 1997 $121,100 $242,879 (est)
Kevin Lin 1997 $15,138 $30,361 (est)
He Saifei 1997 $11,958 $23,983 (est)
David Wu 1997 $15,116 $30,317 (est)
Box Office

Box Office Reported grosses are direct imports. Inflation-adjusted values use imported adjusted totals when available, otherwise they use the yearly U.S. CPI table you maintain in WordPress.

Inflation-adjusted values are shown in 2025 dollars when CPI data is available.

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Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Domestic Domestic theatrical box office gross. 1997 $1,100,788 $2,207,749
International International theatrical box office gross. 1997 $0 $0
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 1997 $1,100,788 $2,151,509
Earnings / Profitability

Earnings / Profitability

Estimated revenues and expenses for films based on currently imported reported and estimated fields. Inflation-adjusted values use the CPI table when direct adjusted values are not present in the export.

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Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue Estimated distributor theatrical revenue using the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1997 $550,394 (est) $1,103,874 (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1997 $0 $0
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1997 $0 $0
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1997 $188,244 $377,544
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: VHS $123,261, DVD $1,245 1997 $124,506 $249,711
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1997 $262,212 (est) $525,894 (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1997 $1,125,357 $2,257,024
Expenses
Budget Production budget. 1997 $1,211,000 N/A
Print & Advertising (P&A) P&A Estimated using Machine Learning sourceSource: ML P&A estimate (peer+ridge)Machine-learned P&A estimate based on peer comps and regression inputs. Reestimate Prior Estimate | Covid Mult: 1 | Peer Count: 0 | Reg Box Pred: $958,601 | Reg Main Pred: $1,374,828 1997 $881,000 (est) $1,766,940 (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1997 $0 (est) $0 (est)
Residuals Residual and related distribution expense line. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1997 $25,771 (est) $51,686 (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 1997 $145,320 (est) $291,455 (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 1997 $2,263,091 $4,538,872
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 1997 $-1,137,734 $-2,281,848
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