9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1991
Wu ge nu zi he yi gen sheng zi
by Yeh Hung-wei
Country: Taiwan
Year: 1991
Duration: 123'
This is a story about five young women who grow up together in a rural village in China, where women are considered worthless and men, masters of the house. Mingtao is the eldest. She is forced into a marriage against her will. She tries to escape, but fails. Aiyue lives with her 70yearold granny. It is granny's birthday and Aiyue's father decides to celebrate this by throwing a banquet. However women are not allowed to sit at the table, not even when she's the hostess... not even when she's granny and she's 70. Hexiang discovers that her sisterinlaw has an affair with one of the young men in the village. The couple pledges her to keep the secret. She decides to help them elope but they are caught and punished to death. Hexiang can but witness in helplessness.
Guijuan goes to visit her pregnant sister. At night, her sister has a difficult labour. The family decides to keep the life of the baby son, but not the mother's... Jinmei has an aunt who is sent back to her mother because she has failed to bear a son for her husband. Nightmares keep haunting her and she finally becomes mad. Having realized that one day each of them will meet a similar tragic fate, these 5 young women decide to escape to "the Garden", where women will not be exploited by men. As such, they choose the day to visit the temple, tie themselves together with a rope, and head for "the Garden". It is September 9, the day of the dead...
Biography
film director
Yeh Hung-wei
Yeh Hung-wei was born in Taiwan in 1963. In 1980, he enrolled at the Department of Cinema and Drama at the Chinese Culture University. In 1983 and 1984, his works received first prizes at the Golden Grain Award of Experimental Film Festival in Taiwan. Alter serving two years of military service, he worked in television as a scriptwriter. In 1987, he entered Tomson Films Company as an assistant director and scriptwriter. He made his directorial debut in 1988 with Never-Ending Memory.
FILMOGRAFIA
Never-Ending Memory (1988), Curses of the Knife (1989), Five Girls and a Rope (1991).
Cast
& Credits
Director and editor: Yeh Hungwei.
Screenplay: Yeh Hungwei, Lao Jiahua, Xiao Mao.
Director of photography: Yang Weihan, Lee Yishih.
Art director: Qiu Juanjuan.
Music: Zhao Jiping.
Sound: Xiong Huachuan.
Cast and characters: Chang Shin (Sibao), Yang Chiehmei (Mingtao), Nang Yuewen (Guijuan), Wu Peiyu (Jinmei), Lu Yuanchi (Aiyue), Ai Jing (Hexiang).
Production company: Tomson Films Co. Ltd., 44f, East Tower, Bond Centre, 89 Queensway, Hong Kong, tel. 8528456618, fax 8528455557.
Foreign sales agent: Shu Kei's Creative Workshop Ltd., Flat F, 18th FI., 272 Jaffe Rd., Hong Kong, tel. 8528387729, fax 8528389206.
Screenplay: Yeh Hungwei, Lao Jiahua, Xiao Mao.
Director of photography: Yang Weihan, Lee Yishih.
Art director: Qiu Juanjuan.
Music: Zhao Jiping.
Sound: Xiong Huachuan.
Cast and characters: Chang Shin (Sibao), Yang Chiehmei (Mingtao), Nang Yuewen (Guijuan), Wu Peiyu (Jinmei), Lu Yuanchi (Aiyue), Ai Jing (Hexiang).
Production company: Tomson Films Co. Ltd., 44f, East Tower, Bond Centre, 89 Queensway, Hong Kong, tel. 8528456618, fax 8528455557.
Foreign sales agent: Shu Kei's Creative Workshop Ltd., Flat F, 18th FI., 272 Jaffe Rd., Hong Kong, tel. 8528387729, fax 8528389206.
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