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Five Girls and a Rope (1990) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1990 · 123 mins · Chinese
- Directed by
- Hung-Wei Yeh
- Starring
- Chang Shih, Yang Chieh-mei, Ying Chang, Hsiu-ling Wang, Yuan-Qi Lu, Jing Ai
Five girls mature in early twentieth‑century China, confronting a society that grants women almost no rights. As they reach adulthood, they witness brutal repression of nearby women. When Mingtao is arranged to marry a wealthy but mentally deficient man, she and her friends flee, seeking the legendary ‘garden’ where a woman's life can truly flourish.
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