Fallen Petals
Taiwan's most glamorous screen couple, Ko Chun-Hsiung and Chang Mei-Yao, co-star in "Fallen Petals", a romance with the unique setting of Taiwan during World War II, when the island was a colony of Japan. Ko is drafted into the Japanese army and forced to leave his pregnant girlfriend behind. When he is presumably killed in action, Chang becomes a cabaret girl to support their baby. Thanks to director Pan Lei's sensitive scenario, the dramatic outcome is far from predictable.
Pan Lei
Casts & Crew
Chang Mei-Yao
Ko Chun-Hsiung
Chu Jing
Ou Wei
Chow Siu-Hing
Liu Wai
Pan Chieh-Yi
Chu Hsu-Ching
Ku Kwan
Han Chiang
Law Hon
An Ping
Wang Sun
Chiu Keung
Also Directed by Pan Lei
In an attempt to seize the famous Tai Hsuan Book of Swords the outlaws Wang, Ku, Lu and Pai Feng attack the Hsia Tien Tsai Mansion and slaughter all righteous opponents. Only Hsia’s baby daughter survives and the dying mother leaves a message in blood to urge her to take revenge once she is grown up. Trained by a hermit she sets out and kills Pai. But his son, unaware of his father’s evil deeds challenges her. She promised to let him kill her once she has finished her mission of vengeance. Soon the swordsman and a mysterious couple become her allies as she terminates foe after foe. Then the final stand-off dawns.
A romantic Shaw Brothers musical.
A clever and lively girl who gets lost in the world of radio drama believes the woman playing mahjong is not her mother, and runs away from home to search for her imaginary mother. A scoundrel claims to be the girl’s father to escape from police. They encounter two women in the mountains: one is tortured by his workaholic husband who engages madly in his scientific research, the other is the pure and naïve girl living in the mountains. Typhoon is coming. They are trapped in a weather station by the heavy rain with their heart and mind overwhelmed by emotions like the rainstorm outside. The film daringly deals with the near infidelity of a middle-aged housewife, a subject at that time both unusual and controversial.
Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1964
shaw production
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