The Mirror and the Lichee(1967)

movie - first aired/released 1967-11-09 - 97 min - audience 8.0

Drama, History, Romance, Music

Directed by Kao Li

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.