The Mirror and the Lichee

(1967)

★ 8 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Drama, History, Romance, Music

Year: 1967

Runtime: 97 мин

Country: Hong Kong

Director: Kao Li

Cast: Ivy Ling Po, 方盈, Alison Chang Yen, Lee Ying, 歐陽莎菲, 沈澱霞, 彭鵬, 雷鳴, У Ма, 田丰

Plot

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.