The Foliage

The Foliage


Starring:Qi, Hua
Studio: Tai Seng
Product Type: DVD

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Shu Qi (The Transporter, So Close, Millennium Mambo, Jackie Chan's Gorgeous) stars in this unforgettable romance set in 1974 China, near the end of the Cultural Revolution. On her way back from a family visit, young female intellectual Xing-Yu (Shu) meets the equally young and rebellious Si-Mong (newcomer Liu Hua) and the two fall in love. When Xing-Yu's childhood friend and lover Yuan gets into a fight with Si-Mong, Xing-Yu tries to make peace between the two jealous rivals. Her attempts for truce further draw her into a forbidden and passionate relationship instead.
The Foliage
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    		The Foliage
    Starring: Liu Huai-Liang , Zhang Jian , Shu Qi , Li Mengan , and Liu Ye
    Director: Lu Le , and Lu Yue
    Manufacturer: Tai Seng
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    ASIN: B0002WYU20
    Release Date: 2004-08-16
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      		The Foliage
      Starring: Liu Huai-Liang , Zhang Jian , Shu Qi , Li Mengan , and Liu Ye
      Director: Lu Le , and Lu Yue
      Manufacturer: Tai Seng
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      The Foliage
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • The Foliage
      • Passionate,forbbidden love story
      		 The Foliage
      Starring: Liu Huai-Liang , Zhang Jian , Shu Qi , Li Mengan , and Liu Ye
      Director: Lu Le , and Lu Yue
      Manufacturer: Tai Seng
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      ASIN: B0002B55XE
      Release Date: 2004-08-16

      Description

      Shu Qi (The Transporter, So Close, Millennium Mambo, Jackie Chan's Gorgeous) stars in this unforgettable romance set in 1974 China, near the end of the Cultural Revolution. On her way back from a family visit, young female intellectual Xing-Yu (Shu) meets the equally young and rebellious Si-Mong (newcomer Liu Hua) and the two fall in love. When Xing-Yu's childhood friend and lover Yuan gets into a fight with Si-Mong, Xing-Yu tries to make peace between the two jealous rivals. Her attempts for truce further draw her into a forbidden and passionate relationship instead.

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars The Foliage.......2007-02-03

      An different kind of love story that unfolds over several decades. Shu Qi, as usual does a good job with what's she's given. Four stars!

      4 out of 5 stars Passionate,forbbidden love story.......2005-11-20

      This is a wonderful movie,a very elaborate peice of work on Chinese Communist leader's Mao ruling and governing of China in 1974.

      The natives of the country were then divided in to various infantries,wear green and dull-looking clothes,and addressed each other as 'comrades'. Life was tough,and those living inthe rural plains wants to go the city.

      Politics aside,The Foliage is mostly a love story.Shu Qi,who recently won Best Actress in the Golden Horse Awards (Chinese equivalent of the Oscars) for her perfomance in Three Times,portrays convincingly as Xing-Yu,a young female intellectual who has just return from the city state,and is awaiting for the goverment to grant her a discharge to move to the city.

      Here,on the way back home,she befriends a young rebel,Sie Mong,who falls for her.It did not help when Xing-Yu's childhood sweetheart felt indignant as he realises she,too,is in love with Sie Mong.Because Sie Mong and Xing-Yu are both from different infantries (that is,communities),they have to share a forbidden love affair.Expect lots of clashes,fights and the death of a close friend.

      The movie also goes to some 29 years later.It is poignant,as the two young lovers were not together.Xing-Yu later married,and it was only her journey back to the village for her husband's burial that she meets Sie Mong.It was only then she realised she and Sie Mong still love one another.I didn't quite get the ending part,the one where a young Xing-Yu chased after a bus while Sie Mong looks out,for in the beginning of the movie,there was another version,that is Sie Mong stopped the bus driver for Xing-Yu to come on board.

      Whatever it is,i think this is a brilliant movie.It is between two young intelletuals pursing a passionate,yet forbidden love affair.It does not help that both leads,Shu Qi and Liu Ye (Sie Mong) are both eye candies.

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