

A poor boy, a rich girl, and a soundtrack that refuses to quit.
Score
Musical numbers that commit fully, consequences be damned.
Costume
Seventies fashion as its own character.

Director
Chen Yao-chi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chen Yao-chi was a rare female director in 1970s Taiwanese commercial cinema, making this a fascinating glimpse of studio-era genre work from a woman's perspective.
The title references the jazz standard, and like the song, the film treats romantic suffering as performance art worth the spectacle.
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