Fly Me to Polaris

Onion lost his sight and his speech as a child. He works at a hospital turning texts into Braille for blind patients. He is in love with Autumn, a nurse there, and can never tell her. One day a car hits him and he dies. Because his is the sixty billionth death on earth, he is granted something: he can come back for five days. But in another body, and he is forbidden to say who he is. The film, directed by Jingle Ma, became one of the most talked-about melodramas of the year in Hong Kong. It is one of Cecilia Cheung's first big parts and one of the works that made her known; Richie Jen plays Onion. The mould is the fantastical love story and the film openly sets out to make you cry. Ninety-six minutes. The place the idea works is this: the man can now see and speak, and it is exactly for that reason that the woman cannot recognise him.