Movielogr
The Mirror and the Lichee (1967)
Directed by Kao Li
Overview
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.
Length 97 minutes
Actors
Ivy Ling Po | Fang Ying | Alison Chang Yen | Lee Ying | Ou-Yang Sha-Fei | Lydia Shum | Pang Pang | Lui Ming | Wu Ma | Tien Feng | Shum Lo | Hao Li-Jen | On Wai-Lin | Chan Ho