THE MIRROR AND THE LICHEE is a musical romance from those folk at Shaw Brothers, dated in a way that their more action-focused late '60s fare really isn't. This harks back to Chinese opera of old and features Ivy Ling Po in a cross-dressing role as a bloke working as a handyman and fixing up a priceless mirror. Of course it's all a plot to get closer to the film's romantic interest and a lot of the running time is spent on singing about forbidden love and longing. More interesting is the power-game plotting with some unpleasant suitor characters and minor officials, and there are small roles for familiar Shaw faces like Tien Feng and a creepy Wu Ma.
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