Characters & Themes
Starry Is the Night (1988) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1988 · 94 mins · Cantonese
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- Directed by
- Ann Hui
- Starring
- John Woo, Brigitte Lin, Rebecca Pan, Derek Yee Tung-Sing, David Wu, Calvin Poon Yuen-Leung
Cai Mei, a 40‑year‑old single social worker, begins an unlikely relationship with the teenage Tian‑Ah. As the affair unfolds, she is forced to revisit the memory of her own youthful love affair with an older, married professor, contrasting the two relationships and their emotional consequences.
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