1968 | Hong Kong | Fiction

董夫人 (The Arch)

  • Mandarin 95 mins
  • Director | T'ang Shushuen
  • Writer | T'ang Shushuen
  • Producer | T'ang Shushuen

STATUS: Released

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One of the first independent films made in Hong Kong, and an important precursor to the Hong Kong New Wave, T’ang Shushuen’s formidable debut, The Arch adapts a 17th-century Chinese folktale about the suppression of a woman’s desire.

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