Country: Hong Kong
Language: Mandarin
Year: 1986
Running Time: 100 min
Long before Hou Hsiao-hsien’s FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI, Yonfan made his own version of this famous novel about Shanghai courtesans. Set in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, IMMORTAL STORY depicts the story of the love affair between a small time chanteuse and her Japanese beau. They met when both were young and pretty and again many years later when he had became a drug addict and she a fallen woman. IMMOTAL STORY is Yonfan’s homage to the filmed classic French romantic tragedies and marks Yonfan’s first time collaboration with Asian superstar/ diva Sylvia Chang.
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Kelly YAO
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Shingo TSURUMI
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Sylvia CHEUNG
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Born in Hunan Province, China, Yonfan moved with his parents to Taiwan in 1950. He grew up in Taichung and moved to Hong Kong (which has been his home-base ever since) in 1965. In the late 1960s he traveled and studied in Europe and America. He began directing in 1984. He writes, designs and executive-produces his own films. His international breakthrough came with BISHONEN, screened with great success in the Berlin Panorama in 1999. In 2003, he made his first documentary BREAKING THE WILLOW, on the legacy of China’s traditional kunqu opera. PRINCE OF TEARS, his twelfth feature, is the first he has made in Taiwan.
1984 A CERTAIN ROMANCE
1985 THE STORY OF ROSE
1986 IMMORTAL STORY
1987 DOUBLE FIXATION
1988 LAST ROMANCE
1990 PROMISING MISS BOWIE
1994 THE NEW AGE TO LIVING TOGETHER
1995 BUGIS STREET
1998 BISHONEN
2001 PEONY PAVILION
2003 BREAKING THE WILLOW
2004 COLOUR BLOSSOMS
2009 PRINCE OF TEARS