Ci qing (2007)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Zero Chou

Writer:

Singing Chen (writer)

Release Date:

30 March 2007 (Taiwan)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

When Jade, a web-cam girl visits Takeko's tattoo studio she becomes entranced with the image of the spider lily and with Takeko as well...

Plot Keywords:

Tattoo | Lesbian Interest | Lesbian

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Rainie Yang	...	Jade
Isabella Leong	...	Takeko
John Shen	...	Ching (as Jian-hung Shen)
Jay Shih	...	Adong (as Yuan-chieh Shih)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yi-han Chen
Ping-han Hsieh

Also Known As:

Cih cing (Taiwan) (alternative transliteration)
Mandala (Taiwan) (working title)
Spider Lilies (International: English title)

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

Taiwan

Language:

Mandarin

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Hong Kong:IIB | Singapore:R21 | South Korea:18 | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Taiwan

Company:

3rd Vision Films

If I told you I had a tattoo somewhere private, would you want to see where it is?

Jade (Rainie Yang) has a porn web-blog and is remembering her first love after she runs into her at a tattoo parlor. Takeko (Isabella Leong - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Eye 3) has a tattoo that Jade wants. More importantly, Jade wants Takeko to remember her. Takeko wants to forget because of trauma that occurred when the two of them were together many years previous.

It is not a girl-on-girl story, it is just a love story with two women, about obsession and trauma, with tattoos as the tie. One doesn't have to get into philosophy to understand love and pain. Just sit back and enjoy.

It was an incredibly beautifully shot film with a great score and two great actors that made it worthwhile.