An Autumn's Tale (1987) poster
1987 · romance · drama

An Autumn's Tale

Directed by Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting1h 38m1987
ElsewhereIMDb7.53kTMDB7.458
  • warm
  • gentle
  • tender
  • intimate
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Warm, steady, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Hong Kong native Lee Kay moves to NYC's Chinatown while attending college. When she learns that her boyfriend's cheating, her cousin comforts her.

Our read · An Autumn's Tale (1987) reads as a warm, steady, grounded romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a gentle immigrant romance in NYC Chinatown with quiet growth.

ends bittersweetyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 15attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if you need high stakes or fast-moving plots over character study.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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