The Mirror and the Lichee

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.

Director: Kao Li

Cast: Ivy Ling Po, Fang Ying, Alison Chang Yen, Lee Ying, Ou-Yang Sha-Fei, Lydia Shum Tin-Ha, Pang Pang, Lui Ming

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