Full of slapstick gags and sparkling musical numbers, this charming screwball comedy from Hong Kong master director Tsui Hark features Sylvia Chang, Kenny Bee, and Sally Yeh in a love triangle that spans World War II. Kwok-man (Bee) and Shu-Shu (Chang) meet in 1937 while sheltering from a Japanese bombing raid on Shanghai, but they are separated by the war. Ten years later they meet again, but Kwok-man’s ditzy new girlfriend Stool (Yeh) is determined to hang onto her man.
“Hark's colors have the almost startling intensity of old Technicolor; combined with his stroboscopic cutting, they make the film seem to fizz and sparkle on the screen” (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader). One of the Hong Kong Film Archive’s 100 Must-See Hong Kong Movies. (Dir.: Tsui Hark, Hong Kong, 1984, 103 min., Digibeta, Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles)
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