Hello SeleneFN :-)

No I didn't buy it. I rented this one just to check it out, thanks to reading about the availability of this movie on this site.

This is a visually sensual movie as opposed to pornographic. The director intended for most of the 'heat' to be generated in the imagination of the audience. I'm not sure that he didn't miscast his leads though. Both Kwan and the young Taiwanese actor didn't convey a Chinese presence of sufficient depth in it. The accents had a lot to do with. They both spoke PuTongHua with Hong Kong and Taiwan accents.

I've watched the Tree as well. A critic said Francis Ng sleepwalked through this one. I have to agree. And to add the same comment to describe Tse Kwan Ho. This movie manged to pull off the feat of having two great award winning actors acting as if they were totally without a clue as to what they were supposed to be doing in there ! In this respect it was a sad waste of the talent they brought in.