The Wooden Man's Bride (1994)
- Original title
- 五魁
- Directed by
- Huang Jianxin
- Genre
- drama, romance
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In 1920s China, a young woman is forced to marry a wooden effigy after her betrothed dies on their wedding day. She forms a bond with the servant who carries the effigy and they try to escape her oppressive in-laws.
melancholicatmosphericslow-burnromantictragicrestrainedvisually starkfolkloricbittersweet
What happens
The Wooden Man's Bride (Chinese: 五魁; pinyin: Wǔ kuí) is a 1994 Chinese film directed by the fifth-generation filmmaker Huang Jianxin. The film is Huang's fifth feature and the first of his films to be released in the United States. The film was also the first film shot in Mainland China to be entirely financed by Taiwanese producers. The film stars both Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese actors, and was based on the novel by Jia Pingwa. The Wooden Man's Bride was something of a departure for the director, Huang Jianxin, whose earlier works were modern-day satires on bureaucracy as in the black comedy, The Black Cannon Incident, and the science-fiction dystopia in Dislocation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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