690 REVIEW : ‘ The Mirror and The Lichee ‘ - 新陈三五娘

A Shaw Brothers Classic ...

‘ The Mirror and The Lichee ‘ - 新陈三五娘




Cast : Ivy Ling Po, Fang Yin
Director : Kao Li

Synopsis

When a local beauty was harassed by a villain at an annual lantern festival, she fled to her uncle’s home to hide. There she met a poor scholar and they fell for each other at the first sight. The villain soon arrived at her hideout and threatened to marry the beauty ….


新陈三五娘 … 凌波 , 方盈

五娘在元宵之夜观赏花灯时,忽遇恶少调戏。五娘逃进世

伯家里暂避，邂逅了才子陈三，两人一见钟情. 时恶少

已追踪而至，声言要娶五娘为妾 ……


Rating / 评价 : 2 ½ stars of 5

412 REVIEW : ‘ The Dream Of The Red Chamber ‘ (1977)

‘ The Dream Of The Red Chamber ‘ (1977)

Cast : Lin Ching-hsia, Sylvia Chang
Director : Li Han-hsiang

Synopsis

A classic tale about the romance of Bao-yu and Dai-yu ! Marriage proved next to impossible to them when Bao-yu’s grandmother deliberately arranged for him to betrothed to his elderly cousin …

Rating : 2 ½ stars of 5

402 REVIEW : ‘ The Crimson Palm ‘

‘ The Crimson Palm ‘

Cast : Ivy Ling Po , Chin Ping , Li Ching
Director : Chen E-hsin

Synopsis

The daughter of a tycoon supported her poor fiancée to take the imperial examination. She arranged to meet him at midnight in her garden to pay off his travel expenses. When he arrived for their rendezvous, he discovered a bloody corpse of her maid …

Rating : 2 ½ stars of 5

363 REVIEW : ‘ Bride Napping ‘

‘ The Bride Napping ‘

Cast : Betty Loh Ti , Chao Chuang , Diana Chang
Director : Yen Chun

Synopsis

A young mistress met a talented poor scholar and fell in love at the first sight. Her maid helped to match make and sent an elderly servant to invite the scholar to the house. However, the elderly servant mistook a notorious bandit and brought him home ….

Rating : 2 ½ stars of 5

338 REVIEW : ‘ Comedy Of Mismatches ‘

‘ Comedy Of Mismatches ‘

Cast : Pat Ting Hung, Chin Feng
Director : Hsieh Chun

Synopsis

Two couples exchanged tokens of affection after a chance meeting in a temple. The tokens were monogrammed but they ended up with the wrong name. They were unnerved by their screaming parents and had muffed their hands-off; thus took the wrong tokens from their beloved ones…..

Rating : 4 stars of 5

307 REVIEW : ' The Love Eterne '

‘ The Love Eterne ‘

Cast : Betty Loh Ti , Ivy Ling Po
Director : Li Han-hsiang

Synopsis

A famous folk tale about a maiden who was yearn for education and had disguised herself as a man in order to attend school. There she met a dashing young man and they swore ‘brotherhood’. For three years, she was secretly in love with him but he was not aware of her true identity …

Rating : 5 stars of 5

303 REVIEW : ‘ The Song Fest ‘

‘ The Song Fest ‘

Cast : Margaret Tu Chuan, Chiao Chuang
Director :

Synopsis

The son of a royal family came in between a passionate tea picker and a charming fisherman who had fallen for each other since young. When he made a marriage proposal to the pretty tea picker, she challenged him to a singing competition where the winner would be the bridegroom-to-be …

A simple love story, filled with many varied wonderful music ( both huang mei diao and san ker ) and gorgeous shots of scenic Sun Moon Lake ( Taiwan ), makes this a great spectacular classic not to be missed. The singing competition between the tea-picker and her suitors is just fantastic, bizarre and hilarious… although the movie is rather a short one, running time only 1 hr 15 mins ….

Rating : 4 stars of 5

292 REVIEW : ‘ Forever And Ever ‘

‘ Forever And Ever ‘

Cast : Ivy Ling Po , Lin Yu
Director : Lo Wei

Synopsis

A poor scholar was manipulated into marrying a nobleman’s reluctant daughter. For three months, the couple did not consummate their relationship. Soon the wife revealed her hesitation as she was stricken with a contagious disease ….

Rating : 2 stars of 5

287 REVIEW : ‘ Beyond The Great Wall ‘

‘ Beyond The Great Wall ‘

Cast : Lin Dai , Chao Lei
Director : Li Han-hsiang

Synopsis

During the Han Dynasty, the Emperor selected his concubines through their portraits. Many concubines bribed the artist except one, the tragic legendary beauty Wang Chao-chun. Her portrait was thus being sabotaged and thereafter she suffered in loneliness for three years until one night when she was playing a melancholy note of pipa and caught the Emperor’s attention ….

Rating : 4 stars of 5

283 REVIEW : ‘ The King With My Face ‘

‘ The King With My Face ‘

Cast : Li Ching , Shin Yung-kyoon , Lim Song Ho
Director : Ho Meng-hua

Synopsis

The twin sons of an emperor were separated at very young age. Years later, the elder son grew up to be a noble warrior but the younger son became a debauched ruler, When the twins met again, the ruthless ruler ordered his sibling face to be hidden by an iron mask ...

Rating : 4 ½ stars of 5

268 REVIEW : ‘ The Female Prince ‘

‘ The Female Prince ‘

Cast : Ivy Ling Po, Fang Ying, Li Ching, Chin Feng, Chin Han
Director : Chow Sze-loke

Synopsis

A poor scholar was framed by his future in-laws for theft of gold and put to jail. His fiancée thus went in disguise as a man to sit for an imperial examination, hoping to succeed and redress his injustice. Little did she expect that her success had put her in a dilemma for the emperor had called upon ‘her’ marriage to the princess…

Rating : 3 ½ stars of 5

209 REVIEW : ‘ The Grand Substitution ‘

‘ The Grand Substitution ‘

Cast : Li Li-hua , Yen Chun , Ivy Ling Po
Director : Yen Chun

Synopsis

A royal infant was substituted with another by a righteous doctor who intent to save him from a traitor minister. The infant was later adopted by the traitor and after fifteen years, the grown up son reunited with his royal princess mother and avenged for the father’s death ….

Rating : 4 ½ stars of 5

198 REVIEW : ' The Story Of Sue San '

' The Story Of Sue San '

Cast : Betty Loh Ti, Chao Lei
Director : King Wu

Synopsis

The romance of a famous prostitute Sue San and the son of a government official . When the son had exhausted his fortunes on Sue, he was thrown out of the brothel. Sue was sold to a local magnate as a concubine; she was later framed to have poisoned the magnate and sentenced to death ...

Rating : 2 1/2 stars of 5

185 REVIEW : ‘ The Magnificent Concubine ‘

‘ The Magnificent Concubine ‘


Cast : Li Li-hua, Yen Chun
Director : Li Han-hsiang

Synopsis

An emperor was obsessed with his favorite concubine and had left his minister, the concubine’s brother, to run the country. Unfortunately, the cruel minister’s self act had led the empire in shambles …

Ratings : 3 stars of 5