The Forbidden Past
1976 · 81 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 21 VOTES · DIR. Chor Yuen
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 868 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:04:14 Welcome, sir
00:07:28 Every X'mas...
00:09:01 You...
00:10:54 Good morning, miss
00:12:04 How about you?
00:13:44 Mom, I will do it
00:15:17 Mom...
00:19:32 The rich worried about the love
00:22:08 why do we need to separate
00:25:05 I'm the engineer Lau De
00:26:42 Scary, isn't it ?
00:32:01 I know I love you truly
00:34:58 for helping me finding this job
00:37:17 If it's not because of me
00:41:07 You take it
00:47:17 I will be lonely in the coming few years
00:49:47 in the letter he said
00:51:57 There are four families living here
00:55:01 ... waiting for your return
01:00:05 Dad, they hit me
01:03:22 I feel the same way
01:06:37 Their father left them...
01:09:35 Who can predict the future !
01:13:23 Julie, I need to take your leave
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed868
Dialogue density10.7 lines / min
First line00:04:14
Final line01:13:23
Production Record
DirectorChor Yuen
LanguageChinese
IMDb votes21