jonesincanada Review of Forbidden Nights

Forbidden Nights (1990 TV Movie)

Would love to see this movie on DVD

[7/10 · 13 October 2006]

I watched this movie when it came out in spring 1990 mainly because I was going to live in China that fall and wanted to find out what it might be like. (Fortunately by the time I lived in China, ice-cold showers were not the norm.) I didn't realize until later that I was to teach in the same city as Judith Shapiro (Changsha)and in fact taught in the university right next to hers. I also taught one or two of her students (who were teachers themselves by the time I met them). Judith and Liang Heng later married, moved to the US, and wrote at least 2 books together, including "The Son of the Revolution", a recounting of Liang Heng's time with the Red Guards. But I too have not forgotten this movie and would love to see it come out on DVD.