A woman's secret love child becomes collateral damage in war's chaos—melodrama soapy enough to drown in.
Lin Yong Kang has an affair with Xu Mei Fan. She gets pregnant and they lose contact as the Japanese invade Hong Kong.
Acting
Li Li-Hua's face does three films' worth of emotional labor.
Costume
Cheongsams so gorgeous they almost justify the suffering.
Cinematography
Shawscope widescreen making intimate tragedy feel epic.
Director
Lo Chen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shaw Brothers' rare 'serious' drama—usually they made kung fu and musicals, not maternal sacrifice weepies.
Li Li-Hua was 40 playing a woman whose youthful indiscretion haunts her—Hollywood would never.
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