Jade Love (film)

Jade Love, aka Madam Yu Ching (Chinese: 玉卿嫂), is a 1984 Taiwanese film directed and written by Chang Yi, based on Pai Hsien-yung's 1960 novella of the same name and starring Yang Hui-Shan.

It is a tragic story set in Guilin, Province of Guangxi, in China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, about a young widow’s pursuit of her desire.

The entire story is told from the perspective of Rong ge (Chinese: 容哥), a ten-year-old boy of a wealthy family in Guilin, Province of Guangxi, in China.

Madam Yu Ching disregards the attentions from men and the marriage proposal from the family where she works, leading to the rumors about her keeping a secret lover.

Madam Yu Ching tells Rong ge that Ching-Sheng, who is too fragile to work due to pulmonary disease, is her sworn brother.

One day, Rong ge finds Ching-Sheng having an affair with the leading actress in the troupe, Jin Fei Yan, and tells Madam Yu Ching about it.

Early morning, Rong ge finds the Madam Yu Ching still has not come back, so he goes to the secret hut, only to see that Ching-Sheng lying in blood.

[3] The sex scene in the film, which showed Madam Yu Ching raising her legs across Ching-Sheng’s shoulders, was deleted out by the censorship board of the Government Information Office.