The affluent, influential Pang family has chosen Miss Ruyi (Gong Li), an acknowledged opium addict, as the head of the family as the Qing dynasty falls into ruin; trusted family servant and opium preparer Duanyu (He Saefei) is promoted to co-executor, a position he discovers is roughly equivalent to whipping boy. Things run akilter when Zhangliang (Leslie Cheung), beloved member of a crime family, is asked to score a sting on the Pang family -- in particular, Miss Ruyi. … mehrWhen he starts to romance her, She rapes Duanyu to sharpen her oriental pleasure techniques, causing him to fall in love with her, and temptress Moon Li uses her newfound experience to win over Zhangliang. Now, two mentally fucked-up men are crazy for the woman, with unimaginable ramifications for Pang and the criminal families, who realize they have to cut their losses fast. Decadence hangs in the air like opium smoke, and so does a tang of its soporific quality... weniger