Film · Drama

Five Girls and a Rope (1990)

Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.

Director

Hung-Wei Yeh

Writers

Xiao Mao, Yei Weilin, Hung-Wei Yeh

Country

Taiwan

Language

Chinese

Release date

April 1, 1990

Original title

五個女子和一根繩子