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Golden Fingernails (1989)

Golden Fingernails poster
Genre
drama film
Country
People's Republic of China

How it feels

Four fashionable women who work in the same office in a Chinese city navigate their romantic lives. Three of them are involved in extramarital relationships with older men.

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What happens

Golden Fingernails is a 1989 Chinese drama film directed by Bao Zhifang, loosely based on 4 of the 10 interviews in Xiang Ya's 1988 work Women Speak. The film focuses on the romantic relationships of 4 fashionable urban women in the same office, 3 of whom are involved in an extramarital relationship. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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