Set in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, IMMORTAL STORY depicts the story of the love affair between a small time chanteuse and her Japanese beau. They met when both were young and pretty and again many years later when he had became a drug addict and she a fallen woman.
Cinematography
Macau's crumbling Portuguese architecture as character, not backdrop.
Acting
Sylvia Chang's devastating restraint—she ages 20 years with a glance.
Costume
Chanteuse gowns that grow increasingly desperate and threadbare.
Director
Yonfan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot months before Macau's 1999 handover to China, the film captures a colonial twilight that no longer exists. Yonfan specifically chose locations scheduled for demolition.
Sylvia Chang and Shingo Tsurumi couldn't share a language—she spoke Mandarin and English, he Japanese. Their scenes were choreographed like silent film, with Yonfan translating emotion by emotion.
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