Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993)

Original title

香魂女

Directed by

Xie Fei

Genre

drama film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

15

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman in a small Chinese village runs a sesame oil business that becomes profitable. She uses her new wealth to purchase a bride for her mentally disabled son.

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What happens

Woman Sesame Oil Maker (Chinese: 香魂女; pinyin: Xiāng hún nǚ) is a 1993 Chinese film. In the English speaking world it has been released in the United Kingdom under the title Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (the more literal translation) and more recently on DVD as Woman Sesame Oil Maker. It is adapted from a novel by Zhou Daxin, "The Fragrant Oil Mill by the Lake of Scented Souls" (香魂塘畔的香油坊). The film is adapted and directed by Xie Fei and tells the story of a woman in a small village in Hebei who runs a small sesame oil business that becomes unexpectedly successful, but who then uses her money to buy for her mentally disabled son a peasant bride. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival in 1993, a prize it shared with Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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