Enter The Forbidden City Trailer

Yue Jiu, the most famous opera singer in all of Imperial China, is expelled from the capital city for vulgarity. He heads south, where he encounters Wang Runsheng, a promising young opera singer for the Chuntai Troupe. When the Emperor invites all of China’s opera troupes back to the capital city for a celebration, Yue Jiu and Runsheng are forced to choose between their reputations, their safety, and their love of opera. Enter the Forbidden City is based entirely on historical events and figures from the Qing Dynasty, the period in which Peking Opera first began to flourish in Imperial China.