Love Eterne (film)

The Love Eterne is a 1963 Hong Kong musical film of the Huangmei opera genre directed by Li Han Hsiang. An adaptation of the classic Chinese story Butterfly Lovers, it tells of the doomed romance between the male Liang Shanbo portrayed by actress Ivy Ling Po, who also sang the characters vocals and the crossdressed female Zhu Yingtai Betty Loh Ti, with singing dubbed by Tsin Ting.

A young 16yearold girl, Zhu Ying Tai, managed to convince her parents to send her to college at Hangzhou on the condition that she went in the guise of a man. Along her journey to the college, she met 17yearold Liang Shan Bo who was attending the same school. They became sworn brothers and studied for three years together. Over this period of time, they formed a strong friendship. Ying Tai gradually fell in love with Shan Bo who, being a bookworm, never did discover what she was despite coming across a couple of oddities. When she was summoned home by her father, Ying Tai revealed the truth to her headmasters wife. Ying Tai requested that she be the matchmaker for her and Shan Bo and gave her a jade pendant as a token to be handed to Shanbo.Shan Bo walked with Ying Tai formiles to send off his sworn brother. She tried several times to hint to him her identity during the journey but to no avail, despite insulting him twice in her exacerbation with his denseness. Finally, she found a way and got his consent to matchmake him to her twin sister. She exhorted him to seek out his fiancee soon before they reluctantly took leave of each other at the pavilion where they first met. Upon returning to school, Shan Bo was restless and could not concentrate on his studies in the absence of his sworn brother. Seeing this, the headmasters wife told him about Ying Tai, gave him the jade pendant and bade him to go propose to her. ........

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