Law Pan

Adapted from one of China's most well-known fairy tales, the Goddess of Mount Hua falls in love with a young mortal scholar Liu Yanchang and gives birth to a baby son, Chenxiang. When Chenxiang grows up, he seeks to unravel the mystery surrounding his mother whom he has never met.

During the Japanese invasion of China, medical students Sun Yang (Chang Yang) and Xu Ruomei (Bai Luming) pretend to be a doctor and his wife to engage in intelligence work behind enemy lines.

Overseas student Qiao Jian-hua and his friend Bai Xue-Liao traveled together to the Typhoon Shelter and met a boat girl named Li Lan-lan. Hua hired Lan as a guide to learn about the life of boat people. The two became close, which aroused the jealousy of Man-man, a rich girl who had a crush on Hua.

A Cathay Studio production

A Shaw Brothers film from 1959