Fallen Petals 落花時節 (1967) **Official Trailer** by Shaw Brothers
Title:
Fallen Petals 落花時節
Year:
1967
Director: Pan Lei 潘壘
Casts:
Chang Mei-yao 張美瑤,
Ko Chun-hsiung 柯俊雄, Ou Wei 歐威,
Chu Ching 祝菁
Taiwan has been home to many glamorous screen couples, but perhaps none as striking as Ko Chun-hsiung and Chang Mei-yao. Three years before their marriage in
1970, they co-starred in Fallen Petals, a wartime romance with a
difference.
One of the few films set in Taiwan during
World War II, when the island was a colony of
Japan, the drama casts Ko as a medical student drafted into the
Japanese army and forced to leave his pregnant girlfriend behind. When he is presumably killed in action, Chang becomes a cabaret girl (and presumably engages in everything that profession implies) to support their baby. Predictably, Ko wasn't killed and returns to find his swee
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