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 Xiou Fen, Xiou Fen
00:10:57 A dozen of escargots to start with
00:12:07 For example! Like you, Julie
00:13:53 It's fine that you date Paul
00:15:30 For our betterment; You leave Xiao Li
00:19:45 The marriage is between you two
00:22:23 I've been sitting here alone...
00:25:13 You have to help me tonight
00:26:56 The rain won't stop tonight
00:32:34 They shouldn't be together
00:35:36 Captain, they...
00:38:09 for fear that you might have a miscarriage
00:43:29 I told your father
00:48:23 I was planning to write to him
00:50:25 But soon I was fine after thinking it clearly
00:53:48 He is my father
00:56:54 Good bye
01:01:37 Because then I'll have a daddy forever
01:04:34 Nien Tzu is so happy today
01:07:25 because of the work
01:10:33 Ms Julie
01:16:38 and there's no trace of my friend !
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed868
Dialogue density10.7 lines / min
First line00:04:14
Final line01:16:38
Production Record
DirectorChor Yuen
LanguageChinese
IMDb votes21