The movie "Rouge" has the same premise as Romeo and Juliet, a forbidden love by the family, and the suicide pact. The difference between Shakespeare's play and this plot is that one of the lovers returns as a ghost to finalize and understand what went wrong with the pact 50 years ago. There isn't anything special with this plot, it goes back and forth between the past and present. There isn't the overwhelming passion of two lovers to lead to a suicide pact. I believe the big issue was the subtitles in the version I watched. In many scenes the dialogs didn't make any sense, it seems that Google translation was used. Obviously I didn't watch the same movie as many of the reviewers, for me the movie lacks a lot to be one of the great Chinese movies.
