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半生緣 (1997)
Based on an Eileen Chang novel, a story of romance and fate set in the Shanghai of the 1930s. Manjing (Wu Chien-lien), a young woman from a once-well-off family, works in a Shanghai factory, where she meets Shujun (Leon Lai), the son of wealthy Nanjing merchants. Despite Shujun's reservations about Manjing's family (her sister, Manlu (Anita Mui) works as a nightclub "hostess"), they manage, in stages, to fall in love. The expected progress through engagement to marriage is interrupted, first by Manjing's ambivalence about taking this step, then by Shujun's rejection of her family, and finally by that family's baroquely conceived abuse and enslavement of Shujun. After a long period of seperation, Shujun and Manjing meet, but realize that their happiness remains only in memory, in a nostalgic re-imagining of opportunities missed, understandings never arrived at.
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Cast
Jacklyn Wu
Gu Manjing
Leon Lai
Shen Shujun
Lei Huang
Shuhui
Ge You
Zhu Hongcai
Wang Zhi-Wen
Zhang Yujin
Annie Wu
Shi Cuizhi
Changwei Liu
Fang Yipeng
Crew
Ann Hui
Director
Mark Lee Ping-Bing
Director of Photography
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