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.
The Mirror and the Lichee (1967) is currently not available on any services.
Ivy Ling Po , Fang Ying , Lee Ying , Ou-Yang Sha-Fei , Lydia Shum Tin-Ha , Pang Pang
Kao Li
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