A ballroom girl's doomed love in 1940s Shanghai — where passion meets patriarchy's crushing boot.
Set in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student and becomes pregnant, but the student's family force her to have an abortion.
Acting
Yiu Wai's devastating descent from spark to ash
Production
Lavish period recreation of decadent pre-war Shanghai
Direction
Pai Ching-jui's unflinching social critique
Director
Pai Ching-jui
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