Cry Woman

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Cry Woman
Traditional Chinese哭泣的女人
Simplified Chinese哭泣的女人
Hanyu PinyinKū qì de nǔ rén
Directed byLiu Bingjian
Written byLiu Bingjian
Deng Ye
Produced byJason Chae
Ellen Kim
Michel Reilhac
Deng Ye
StarringLiao Qin
Wei Xingkun
Zhu Jiayue
Li Longjun
CinematographyXu Wei
Edited byYing Zhou
Music byDong Liqiang
Distributed byMirovision
Release date
  • May 19, 2002 (2002-05-19) (Cannes)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin

Cry Woman (Chinese: 哭泣的女人; pinyin: Kū qì de nǔ rén) is a 2002 Chinese film directed by Liu Bingjian. It was Liu's third feature film and like his previous two films, Incense and Men and Women, Cry Woman was not given permission to screen in China.

Cry Woman stars the Beijing Opera star Liao Qin in her first film role.[1]

Despite being banned in China, the film was screened at several international venues, including the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival held in the Czech Republic[2] and in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

Plot[edit]

Wang Guixiang (Liao Qin) and her husband (Li Longjun) are a migrant couple living in Beijing. Wang is eking out a career selling unlicensed DVDs when disaster strikes and police confiscate her DVD stocks, and her husband is arrested after getting into a fight over a mahjong game. Forced to return to Guizhou, she meets an old boyfriend (Wei Xingkun), who suggests she take a job as a professional mourner. Surprisingly, Wang finds herself very good at her new job as a "cry woman" and soon discovers that her talents are very much in demand.

Cast[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Vick, Tom (2002). "Kuqide Nuren". allmovie. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
  2. ^ "Cry Woman". Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. 2002. Archived from the original on 2013-01-03. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
  3. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Cry Woman". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-31.

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