Love in Chilly Spring (Chen, 1979): Mini-Film Review

Love in Chilly Spring 春寒 (Chen 陈俊良, 1979) is pretty hard to watch. Super cheesy, and if you're only reading the subtitles, both unintelligible and laugh out loud funny (see image below). But the star power is evident--the film stars Taiwanese singer Fong Fei-Fei 鳳飛飛 (1953-2012)--and the story itself quite important in Taiwan's history. It takes place in Ilan during the Second Sino-Japanese War when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization, and it portrays a romance between two Taiwanese young people that is thwarted by a Japanese lieutenant. So is it so bad that it's good? For me, not so much.

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