There he filmed Happy Together, which details the love-hate relationship between Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung, two of Hong Kong's biggest heartthrobs.

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The movie follows a pair of male Beijing Opera performers, Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi), from their school days, in the nineteen-twenties and early thirties, to their farewell performance together, in 1977.

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