China's 1940 forbidden romance where love literally refuses to die.
A young woman falls in love with her university classmate but her father is against it. She disappears and soon there are rumours that her spirit haunts her family’s villa.
Production
Surviving fragment of 1940s Shanghai studio system
Costume
Period qipao and scholarly robes in ghostly atmosphere
Director
Yang Xiao-Zhong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 1930s-40s Chinese cinema blending Hollywood gothic tropes with Confucian family tragedy.
Director Yang Xiao-Zhong was known for commercial genre films; most of his work is now lost.
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