Sinopsis momentánea en inglés: SUN, MOON AND STAR is a two-part film produced in color by Hong Kong's Cathay Studios in 1961. Part 1, reviewed separately, introduced Xu Jianbai (Yang Zhang) and the three women in his life: A-Lan (Lucilla You Min), the country girl and childhood sweetheart; cousin Qiuming (Grace Chang), the cosmopolitan city girl and college student; and Su Yanan (Julie Yeh Feng), the student activist and woman of action, all framed against a backdrop of China in the 1930s and '40s during the period of Japanese invasion, occupation and aftermath.
Despite the large-scale war scenes (which are rather awkwardly staged), the story is basically an intimate drama of four people and is best treated as one film with both parts meant to be watched back to back (the total is a little over three-and-a-half hours). It's a bittersweet tale, gentle and moving and simply and elegantly done, for the most part. The three actresses are just incredible, creating strong, living, breathing, compelling women who follow their destinies and manage always to rise above the petty emotions that would create the kinds of melodramatic complications which normally fill this type of movie. All of these women see the larger picture in a way that the indecisive hero never does. They're the real heroes and they accomplish quite a lot, certainly more than Jianbai ever does. They're all wonderful women in a down-to-earth, everyday way, not the larger-than-life, glamorous Shaw Bros. way. You can understand the hero's inability to choose between them.
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