The Mermaid: Dipping into my Shaw Brothers backlog I picked out this delightful little Huang Mei opera entitled The Mermaid. This is a film which is, quite literally, a fairy tale as a carp of the fairy world falls in love with a young scholar. As he is already engaged to a gold-digger named Mudan the carp disguises herself as his betrothed. This leads to some humorous scenes with not only there being two Mudans but friends of the carp also transform into a local judge and his court.

All in all this opera is quite interesting and kept my interest the whole way through. When I do find the time to go back to a lot of these films (which I suspect will coincide with when I stop buying new films) I can certainly see myself going back to this.

Labels: Hong Kong, Huang-Mei, Musical