Cherry Blossoms DVD
Mandarin and/or Cantonese Multilingual DVDs
Hong Kong Movie
Drama 96 Minutes Multi-Lingual
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Cherry Blossoms (1988) 郁達夫傳奇 Director: Fong Ling Ching Starring: Chow Yun Fat, Fok Tak Wah, Wong Kwok Ling In the last moments of his life, China's famed poet, Dafu (Chow Yun Fat) remembers his youth as a student in Japan. The most important people in his life were his best friend Lkada, and Lung-Erin, the girl they became rivals over. Finally, Dafu is forced to sacrifice his own happiness for Lung-Erin's safety. Chow Yun Fat has a small role in the beginning and ending of this film, which moves very slowly and ponderously, carefully examining Ya Dafu's days living as a Chinese man in Japan and the contrast between his personality and that, as perceived by writer and director Eddie Fong, of Ya Dafu's Japanese contemporaries. Cherry Blossoms received a very positive review in Stephen Teo's book: Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions. Teo writes: "a lustrous evocation of Japan in the period 1910-20. ... seethes with an atmosphere of repressed desire .... The clash of national identity and individual feelings infuses the film with a mesmerizing quality while enriching it with political themes" DVD: List Price: US $22.95
Rating: II - "May be Inappropriate For Children" (Broad rating may be roughly equal to an MPPA rating of "PG-13" to "R". In the late 1980s this rating splintered in two ratings: IIA and IIB) Films rated Category II may contain mild to strong violence, nudity that is usually not sexually oriented, explicit language and adult situations. OR
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