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Island of Loves (1982)
Directed by Paulo Rocha
Drama · 2h 50m
This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married a Chinese woman after he left his wife and family to go live in Macao. Later, he moved to Japan where he fell in love with a Japanese woman, staying in Japan for the rest of his life. Mixed in with the career and loves of Moraes is the history of Portugal at home and in its colonies.
Cast
Luís Miguel Cintra
Zita Duarte
Jorge Silva Melo
Paulo Rocha
Yoshiko Mita
Wang Lai
Crew
- Director
- Paulo Rocha
- Screenplay
- Paulo Rocha
- Writer
- Wenceslau de Moraes
- Director of Photography
- Acácio de Almeida, Elso Roque, Kōzō Okazaki
- Producer
- Paulo Rocha, Etsuko Takano
Details
- Original title
- A Ilha dos Amores
- Release date
- 1982-06-08
- Runtime
- 2h 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- PT
- Spoken languages
- Portuguese, Japanese
- Countries
- Portugal
- Production
- Suma Filmes