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The Mirror and the Lichee

★ 8/10 · 1 votes 1967 1h 37m Released

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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.

Cast

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