The Mirror and the Lichee (1967)
新陳三五娘
Movie queen Ivy Ling Po is ideally cast as a male scholar in this historical Huangmei Opera romance. It’s a tragic love story between the scholar and a local beauty (played by Fang Ying). He polishes mirrors as a pretext to get closer to his love, who signals her approval by tossing him a bunch of lichees. From that point on the course of true love proves operatically rocky, complete with murder and suicide.
- Date of release
- 1967-11-09
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama, History, Romance, Music
- Director
- Kao Li
Casting
- Ivy Ling Po — Chen Bo Qing / Chen San
- Fang Ying — Huang Bi Jun / Wu Niang
- Alison Chang Yen — Yi Chun
- Lee Ying — Master Huang
- Ou-Yang Sha-Fei — Madam Huang
- Lydia Shum Tin-Ha — Chun Tao
- Pang Pang — Huang Gui
- Lui Ming — Master Lin Da Xiong
- Wu Ma — Lin Fu
- Tien Feng — Master Lu
- Shum Lo — Uncle Li
- Hao Li-Jen — Master Lu's Servant
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