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The Forbidden Past

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The Forbidden Past — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • December 16, 1976
  • Runtime
  • 81 min
  • Genres
  • Romance, Drama
  • Director
  • Chor Yuen

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The Forbidden Past — Cast

Ching Li photo Ching Li Julie Ling Yun photo Ling Yun Lo Wei / Paul Zhou Chang Tzu-le Nien Tzu Tsung Hua photo Tsung Hua Tzen Hwa Si Wai photo Si Wai Alan Lau Wai-Ling photo Lau Wai-Ling Marie

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