The Forbidden Past
Movie| Title | 小樓殘夢 |
| User score | 5.7 |
| Release date | Dec 16, 1976 |
| Genre | Romance, Drama |
| Director | Chor Yuen |
| Production country | Hong Kong |
| Production companies | Shaw Brothers |
| Run time | 81 min. |
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.
