Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy loner aching for a male descendent to learn his rare and dying art.
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The King of Masks was released in 1995 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 63 reviews, giving The King of Masks (1995) an average rating of 80%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 87%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 75%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The King of Masks than critics were.
With a score of 80%, The King of Masks is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1995, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1995 with similar scores include films like Twelve Monkeys and The Cure.
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