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Summer Heat (1968)

Summer Heat poster
Original title
狂戀時
Directed by
Kō Nakahira
Genre
drama film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 31m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman in Hong Kong gets caught up in a love triangle during a sweltering summer. The heat intensifies the emotional strain between the characters.

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What happens

Summer Heat is a 1968 Hong Kong film directed by the Japanese director Kō Nakahira (credited by his Chinese name Yeung Shu-Hei) and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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