Brigitte Lin
At least fourteen cinematic adaptations of the "Dream of the Red Chamber" have been made, including the 1944 film directed by Bu Wancang, the Hong Kong Shaw Brothers adaptation starring Sylvia Chang and Brigitte Lin, and the 1988 film directed by Xie Tieli () and Zhao Yuan (). This last film took two years to prepare and three years to shoot, and remains, at 735 minutes, the longest Chinese film ever made.