english title | The Forbidden Past |
original title | 小樓殘夢 |
year | 1979 |
country | Hong-Kong |
director | Choh YUEN - 楚原 | |
actor | LING Wan - 凌雲 | |
CHING Li - 井莉 | ||
CHUNG Wa - 宗華 | ||
LAU Wai Ling |
duration | 77 mins |
production studio | Shaw Brothers 邵氏 |
In the sixties, love stories portrayed women as sentimentalists or sacrificial lambs. Later on, directors like Chu Yuan replaced these themes of sacrifice with abandonment. The Forbidden Past is a heart tugging, rare Chinese Christmas story about a bar girl (Ching Li) serving drinks to a man that looks like her husband from five years ago. She convinces him to fulfill her son's wishes of having the father he's never seen, show up for Christmas. A merry Christmas follows?