Characters & Themes
Island of Loves (1982) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1982 · 170 mins · Portuguese
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- Starring
- Yoshiko Mita, Luís Miguel Cintra, Paulo Rocha, Zita Duarte, Jorge Silva Melo, Wang Lai
The film follows 19th‑century Portuguese writer Wenceslau de Moraes via nine ancient Chinese ballads. After leaving his wife and family to live in Macau, he marries a Chinese woman. He later moves to Japan, falls for a Japanese woman and spends the rest of his life there. The story weaves his life with Portugal's history at home and in its colonies.
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