The Second Woman (2012)
One suspects writer-director Carol Lai may have harboured some Black Swan ambitions with a tale that also centers around a stage practitioner who embarks on an unwitting destructive journey when playing a role to die for. The Second Woman, whose Chinese title Romance Riddle may hold better clues as to how this film developed, being more of a guessing game that threw constant clues rather than a overly romantic film about twins falling in love with a man who decided it's perfectly OK to string both women along, until he discovers that this spells double trouble.
Director:
Carol Lai Miu-Suet
Writers:
Ho Lai, Carol Lai Miu-Suet.
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Shu Qi as Wai Heung / Wai Bo |
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Shawn Yue Man-Lok as Fong Yik Nan |
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Chen Shu as Amy |
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Niu Mengmeng as Fan |
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Xi Meijuan as |
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Lo Hoi-Pang as |
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Emotion Cheung Kam-Ching as |
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Zhang Naitian as KK |
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Joe Easy as A Zhong |
| Camera | Choi Sung-Fai | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Raymond Wong Ying-Wah | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Carol Lai Miu-Suet | Writer |
| Editing | Eric Kwong Chi-Leung | Editor |
| Production | Gordon Chan | Producer |
| Writing | Ho Lai | Screenplay |
| Writing | Carol Lai Miu-Suet | Screenplay |
| Production | Alex Dong | Producer |
| Directing | Carol Lai Miu-Suet | Director |