Outside the Window

Outside the Window
Chinese 窗外
Mandarin Chuāng Wài
Directed by Sung Tsun-shou
Produced by Gu Jiahui
Screenplay by Lu Jianye
Based on Outside the Window
by Chiung Yao
Starring Brigitte Lin
Chin Han
Hu Qi
Release dates
  • August 24, 1973 (1973-08-24) (Hong Kong)
Running time
 100 minutes
Country Taiwan
Language Mandarin

Outside the Window is a 1973 Taiwanese romantic film directed by Sung Tsun-shou, based on the novel of the same name by Chiung Yao. It was released in British Hong Kong on August 24, 1973, but due to copyrights issues, was not publicly screened in Taiwan until 2009.

This film is Brigitte Lin's acting debut.

Plot

Jiang Yanrong is a senior high student girl who lacks of parents' love and care, so she falls in love with her teacher Nan Kang. However, their love is not allowed at that time, for the twenty-year age gap between them and their student-teacher relationship. In addition, Yanrong Jiang is afraid that she will be a burden for Nan, who is the best teacher in the school. At the same time, Nan Kang is also worried that he may affect Yangrong's reputation. Therefore, they decide to end their love, although both of them still have feeling for each other. After graduation, Nan is fired by the school. Yanrong wants to commit suicide but is saved by her mother. She confesses that she still has feeling for Nan Kang and begs her mother to permit their marriage. To calm Yanrong down, her mother pretends to permits, but goes to prosecute Nan that he captivate her teenager daughter. Nan is fired again. Few years later, Yanrong gets marry with Li Liwei, but is often beaten and humiliated by her husband. She leaves home and wants to find Nan and their beautiful love back, but only finds that Nan's spirit is broken down and he becomes a dirty and sorehead old man that she doesn't know.[1]

Cast

Brigitte Lin as Jiang Yanrong

Chinese: 林青霞; pinyin: Lín Qīngxiá or Brigitte Lin (born 3 November 1954)

Brigitte Lin is a Taiwanese actress. She was a popular actress, regarded as an icon of Chinese cinema, who acted in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong films. She retired in 1994, although she had a minor role in the 1998 film Bishonen .[2]

She was born in Taipei, and was "discovered" in 1972 by a film producer, and first appeared in many Taiwanese romance films based on the novels of Chiung Yao. Her movie debut is in Chuangwai. She later switched over to making movies in Hong Kong. At the height of her popularity she was arguably one of the most sought-after actresses in the Chinese film industry. She starred in more than 100 movies[citation needed].

In Hong Kong movies, Lin made a career of playing transgender roles: in Peking Opera Blues she plays a tomboy who dresses in male Western clothes; in New Dragon Gate Inn she is a woman who dresses as a man, and in Swordsman II and Swordsman III she plays a male character who castrates himself for power and so is now slowly turning into a woman. She had a good working relationship with Tsui Hark, acting in many of the films he directed (like Peking Opera Blues) and produced (Swordsman II).

She married businessman Michael Ying in 1994 and left the film industry. She has two daughters, born in 1997 and 2001. She made her first public appearance since her marriage at a screening of Ashes of Time Redux at the 2008 New York Film Festival.

Hu Qi as Nan Kang

Hu Qi，the late veteran actor in Taiwan, formally called Yuanbao Hu. He went to Taiwan along with the national government in 1949. He was a drama actor in the beginning; later, he became an actor of Hua Shi Media in the 1970s, which is a famous company in Chinese film and TV program industry.[3] He was a popular actress that made fame with both TV dramas and big screen movies, appearing in plenty of swordsmen films and literary films. He died of stroke in his later years.[4]

CHUN Hon as Li Liwei

Chinese: 秦汉; pinyin:Chin Han He was born on July 10, 1946 in Shanghai, China. He is an actor and director, known for Ruan Lingyu (1991), Gun gun hong chen (1990) and Wang yang zhong de yi tiao chuan (1979).[5]

Formally called Xiangzhong Sun, CHUN Hon's ancestral home is Sichuan province. He is a Taiwan actor. He attended the shilin, kaiping high middle school, and graduated from China film actor training class in 1966. His father is a high-ranking military officer of the Kuomintang and an anti-Japanese star, Yuanliang Sun. In 1972, CHUN Hon married Qiaoyin Shao, who manages a cosmetic shop. They had a daughter and a son. In 1976, he was linked with Brigitte Lin because they two worked together for many times. In 1982, he divorced with Qiaoyin Shao. In 1985, CHUN Hon and Brigitte Lin went public with their romance. But later, they two broke up in 1994. Now, his daughter works as his assistant, accompanying with him.[6]

Director

Tsu-shou Sung(1930.09.02~2008.0527)

Chinese: 宋存寿; Pinyin: Song Cunshou Born in Jiangsu province, Tsu-shou Sung is a director in Taiwan. He got along famously with Hang Li, Hanxiang Li,Jinquan Hu and some others in the Chinese film industry. He is good at love literary films, and has a reputation as Literati director. His representative works include Morning has broken,Story of Mother Outside the Window and so on.[7] He won the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards in 2001, which is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan.[8]

Original Work

Outside the Window [9]（Changjiang Literature and Arts press）[10]

Chiung Yao(Chinese celebrated writer in modern time, screenwriter)

Chiung Yao (born Chen Zhe on April 20, 1938 in Chengdu, Sichuan) is the pen name of a popular Chinese romance novelist based in Taiwan. Many of her works have been made and remade into movies and TV series. Films based on her books have been made in the Republic of China (Taiwan) since the 1970s, and were very popular during their time. They often featured Brigitte Lin, Joan Lin, Charlie Chin and/or Chin Han, who were then collectively known as the "Two Lins and Two Chins".[11]

In the 1990s, TV series adapted from her works continued to be watched in Taiwan and sometimes, in Mainland China. Huan Zhu Ge Ge, or My Fair Princess in English, is the best-known and popular of her recent novels, owing to the popularity of the 1998-1999 TV series. Zhao Wei, Fan Bingbing are both the leading roles in this TV series, and they became famous because of this.

She has written more than 50 romance novels, many of which were rearranged into movies, TV series, Songs and so on. She influenced people's view of love at that time.[12]

References

  1. ↑ 窗外(电影). Accessed Nov. 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ Hong Kong Movie Database: Brigitte Lin Accessed Nov.18, 2015
  3. ↑ 百度百科:华视娱乐. Accessed Nov.25, 2015.
  4. ↑ 中文电影资料库: Hu Qi. Accessed Nov.25, 2015.
  5. ↑ Hong Kong Movie Database: Han Chin Accessed Nov.18, 2015.
  6. ↑ 百度百科：秦汉 Accessed Nov.18, 2015.
  7. ↑ 百度百科:宋存寿. Accessed Nov.25, 2015.
  8. ↑ Golden Horse Award Accessed Nov.25, 2015.
  9. ↑ 窗外(小说) Accessed Nov.25, 2015.
  10. ↑ 长江文艺出版社 Accessed Dec.16, 2015.
  11. ↑ 百度百科:琼瑶 . Accessed Dec.16, 2015.
  12. ↑ Chiung Yao's Works. Accessed Dec.16, 2015.
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