The Mirror and the Lichee (1967)

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.

Released Nov. 9, 1967 97 min None+

Genres: Drama, History, Music, Musical, Romance

Keywords: mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.scholar, imdb.maiden, imdb.classical, imdb.chinese-opera, aspectratio.2-35-1

Production Companies: Shaw Brothers

Country: Hong Kong
Languages: Mandarin