Jade Love (1986)

Original title

玉卿嫂

Directed by

Chang Yi

Cast

Jiang Qin Qin, Luo Hai Qiong, Liu Jun, Pan Hong, Wang Hai Ping

Genre

romance film

Country

Taiwan

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young widow in 1940s China pursues a forbidden relationship. The film follows her struggle with desire and societal expectations.

melancholiclongingrestrainedtragicperiodslow-burnsteamyyearning

What happens

Jade Love, aka Madam Yu Ching (Chinese: 玉卿嫂), is a 1984 Taiwanese film directed and written by Chang Yi, based on Pai Hsien-yung's 1960 novella of the same name and starring Yang Hui-Shan. The novella on which it was based was published in Modern Literature (Chinese: 現代文學) magazine in 1960. It is a tragic story set in Guilin, Province of Guangxi, in China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, about a young widow’s pursuit of her desire. Censors from the Government Information Office removed four minutes (including an explicit sex scene) from the film. The uncensored version was not released until 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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