| english title | The Forbidden Past |
| original title | 小樓殘夢 |
| year | 1979 |
| country | Hong-Kong |
| director | Choh YUEN - 楚原 | |
| actor | LING Wan - 凌雲 | |
| CHING Li - 井莉 | ||
| CHUNG Wa - 宗華 | ||
| LAU Wai Ling |
| duration | 77 mins |
| production studio | Shaw Brothers 邵氏 |
In the sixties, love stories portrayed women as sentimentalists or sacrificial lambs. Later on, directors like Chu Yuan replaced these themes of sacrifice with abandonment. The Forbidden Past is a heart tugging, rare Chinese Christmas story about a bar girl (Ching Li) serving drinks to a man that looks like her husband from five years ago. She convinces him to fulfill her son's wishes of having the father he's never seen, show up for Christmas. A merry Christmas follows?
