Five Girls and a Rope (1990)
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.
Director:
Hung-Wei Yeh
Writer:
Hung-Wei Yeh
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Jing Ai as Hejiang |
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Chang Shih as Sibao |
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Ying Chang as Shaman |
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Yuan-Qi Lu as Aiyue |
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Hsiu-ling Wang as Guijuan |
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Wang Yu-wen as |
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Wu Pei-yu as Jinmei |
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Yang Chieh-mei as Mingtao |
| Writing | Xiao Mao | Writer |
| Production | Hsu Feng | Producer |
| Camera | Yang Wei-han | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Li Yi-xu | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Hung-Wei Yeh | Director |
| Writing | Yei Weilin | Original Story |
| Writing | Chia-Hua Lau | Writer |
| Writing | Hung-Wei Yeh | Novel |
| Writing | Hung-Wei Yeh | Screenplay |