The Mirror and the Lichee

The Mirror and the Lichee — Plot

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.

• Release date
• November 9, 1967
• Runtime
• 97 min
• Genres
• Drama, History, Romance, Music
• Director
• Kao Li

The Mirror and the Lichee — Cast

Ivy Ling Po Chen Bo Qing / Chen San Fang Ying Huang Bi Jun / Wu Niang Alison Chang Yen Yi Chun Lee Ying Master Huang Ou-Yang Sha-Fei Madam Huang Lydia Shum Tin-Ha Chun Tao Pang Pang Huang Gui Lui Ming Master Lin Da Xiong