Eighteen Springs

Eighteen Springs

1997 · 126 min · ZH · 7.3 (26 votes)
Dir. Ann Hui · Starring Leon Lai, Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien, Ge You, Anita Mui Yim-Fong, Annie Wu, Huang Lei · Music Ye Xiaogang
DramaRomance

In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company.

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A deeply felt journey through time, steeped in wistful romance and the bittersweet ache of what might have been. It's an exquisitely rendered period piece, evoking a melancholic beauty as love contends with the unyielding hand of fate and societal expectations.

melancholicpoignantromanticbittersweetwistfulslow-burnlush period aestheticsclassic melodramacharacter-drivenvisually richlovefatelongingsocietal pressuresmemory
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