The Forbidden Past(小樓殘夢)
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Hong Kong · 1976
1h 21m
Director Chor Yuen
Starring Ching Li, Ling Yun, Chang Tzu-le, Tsung Hua
Genre Romance, Drama
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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?
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