The Peony Pavilion
Wo de mei li yu ai chou
Taiwan
1995
95 Min
Color
Mandarin, Taiwanese
A teenager called Li Li, always got the same dream. In the dream, she falls in love with a scholar. She finds satisfaction in the dream whereas she feels disillusion in the reality and led her became insane. Accidentally, she saw the scholar in an advertisement. But, when she starts to find him, she died in an accident…
An infamous singer called Yuk Mui, moved into Li Li’s apartment coincidentally. From then on, she always got the same dream as Li Li’s. The dream redeems her unhappiness in reality, but also led her cannot confront her failure in love and career, so she commits suicide. Actually Li Li’s soul is staying in the apartment, she get into Yuk Mui’s body. —yesasia.com