The Mirror and the Lichee (1967)

November. 09,1967

5.1

| Drama History Music Romance

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.

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Cast

Ivy Ling Po as Chen Bo Qing/Chen San

[2004] Rice Rhapsody [2003] Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio [1987] Golden Swallow [1975] The Empress Dowager [1972] Finger of Doom [1972] The 14 Amazons

Fang Ying as Huang Bi Jun/Wu Niang

[1970] The Iron Buddha [1968] Gun Brothers [1968] The Land of Many Perfumes [1967] The Mirror and the Lichee [1967] Auntie Lan [1965] The West Chamber

Lee Ying as Master Huang

[1977] The Green Dragon Inn [1971] Deaf and Mute Heroine [1967] The Mirror and the Lichee [1967] The Dragon Creek [1966] The Monkey Goes West [1966] Sweet and Wild

Reviews

Mjeteconer

1967/11/09

Just perfect...

Intcatinfo

1967/11/10

A Masterpiece!

Baseshment

1967/11/11

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

TaryBiggBall

1967/11/12

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.