In the sixties, love stories portrayed women as sentimentalists or sacrificial lambs. Later on, directors like Chu Yuan replaced these themes of sacrifice with abandonment. The Forbidden Past is a heart tugging, rare Chinese Christmas story about a bar girl (Ching Li) serving drinks to a man that looks like her husband from five years ago. She convinces him to fulfill her son's wishes of having the father he's never seen, show up for Christmas.
Top Cast
Ching Li as Julie
Ling Yun as Lo Wei
Chang Tzu-le as Nien Tzu
Tsung Hua as Tzen Hwa
Si Wai as Alan
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