I can tell that this is an old movie because Chow Yun-Fat is seriously young. Lin Chin-sha amazingly don't look all that different in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. Young or not, Chow Yun-Fat already has 10 years of acting experience behind him, and is about to break big with his starring role in "Better Tomorrow"

The two actors has outstanding on screen presence in this movie. The word best of the best comes to mind when seeing these two actors together. It's no wonder that they became international stars. They have such great chemistry together as lovers too. In this movie, most of the time there're only two actors, but don't feel lacking in any ways. They are beautiful, vibrant, and convincing.

I'm just envious about Chow Yun-Fat to be able to snog Brigitte Lin so much in this movie. But he's very deserving to have this role.

Certainly the best romantic movie of all times, and highly recommended for viewing.

One of the few ghost stories to work on film, and one of the few really eerie and erotic films from Hong Kong that I have seen, this study of a couple caught up in the past is simply conceived but fascinatingly spun out as it follows their reactions stage by stage, thanks to the sensitive interplay of the two actors in their double roles. This is easily the (two) most interesting of Chow Yun Fat's performances I have seen, and it is illuminating to see Brigitte Lin head on for once, and allowed to develop her role(s) unobscured by the bizarre, the trivial, or the merely picturesque. The atmosphere of the early scenes very much resembles that of some of Robert Aickman's ghost stories, except that here one knows what is going on. One particularly pleasing and persuasive touch is that neither the lovers nor anyone else doubts it; the older characters feel the burden of the past too (there is probably an allegory in that, if one cared to work it out). My main quibble is with the synthesizer pulse in the background; it works, as it always does in films of this type, and here it is introduced legitimately (one of the characters composes synthesizer music),but the effect is still too easy, and the actors deserve a subtler one to match their performances.

The two leads are so gorgeous you are swept away in this tale of lovers from ancient China and modern Hong Kong. The modern man and woman dream of each other as Qin Dynasty lovers and then they find each other at the display of the warrior statues from the tombs of the Qin ruler at a museum. They are swept up in their dream world and how it impacts their modern lives makes for a riveting story. Very erotic and strange.

Chow Yun Fat and Brigitte Lin are both perfectly cast as the lovers. The haunting music carries the story along and sets the mood. A first rate romance.