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
- 1967-11-09
- Genres
- Drama, History, Romance, Music
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kao Li
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Ivy Ling Po as Chen Bo Qing / Chen San
- Fang Ying as Huang Bi Jun / Wu Niang
- Alison Chang Yen as Yi Chun
- Lee Ying as Master Huang
- Ou-Yang Sha-Fei as Madam Huang
- Lydia Shum Tin-Ha as Chun Tao
- Pang Pang as Huang Gui
- Lui Ming as Master Lin Da Xiong
- Wu Ma as Lin Fu
- Tien Feng as Master Lu
- Shum Lo as Uncle Li
- Hao Li-Jen as Master Lu's Servant