wealthy Ma family. Shanbo, who was already ailing, was deeply grieved. He returned home and his health steadily deteriorated. Several days before her wedding day, he asked to see her again. When his servant returned instead with a token from her, it was the final blow. He sent his servant to Yingtai with a last gift and died. Yingtai was stricken with sorrow and forced her father to come to a compromise: to allow her to visit Shanbo's tomb on the way to her betrothed's home or she would not marry. At the tomb, she swore her undying love for Shanbo and that if they could not be together in life, she would rather be with him in death. A tornado sprang up and an earthquake split the tomb in two whereupon Yingtai threw herself into it. The whipping winds covered the tomb with sand. After the winds died down, two residual pieces of cloth from Yingtai's mourning clothes transform into two butterflies, and flutter away to the heavens. Cast Zhu Yingtai: Betty Loh Ti Liang Shanbo: Ivy Ling Po Ying Hsin: - Ren Jie Si Jiu: - Li Kun Old Master Zhu: Ching Miao Madam Zhu: Chen Yen-yen Headmaster: Yang Chih-ching Headmaster's wife: Kao Pao-shu Extra: Jackie Chan (uncredited) Huangmei Opera Vocals Zhu Yingtai: Tsin Ting Liang Shanbo: Ivy Ling Po Old Master Zhu: Kiang Hung (Yingtai's father) Reception The story of "Liang Shanbo yu Zhu Yingtai" is a folk legend set during the period of the Jin Dynasty. There had been various film and TV renditions but the Shaw Brothers' version, directed by Li Han Hsiang, is the only adaptation that remains popular to this day. It is considered a quintessential Huang Mei film. In particular, the song 十八相送 ("Eighteen Miles Away") was popularized by the film. The film won enormous popularity in Taiwan, breaking records at the box office in 1963, becoming the largest grossing film at that time. The songs and lyrics left an impression on audiences in almost all of Southeast Asia. In a tour of Taiwan that year, Ivy Ling Po created a pandemonium attracting over 200,000 fans. According to the film director Ang Lee, the film "became so popular in Taiwan that some claimed to have seen it 500 times. Lines of its dialogue became part of everyday conversation ... People would take two box lunches, go the theater and watch it all