A Woman and Seven Husbands (1990)
Original title: 販母案考
A Woman and Seven Husbands is a 1990 Chinese-language drama movie directed by Terry Tong Gei-Ming, with a running time of 1h 45m. It stars Lu Hsiao-Fen, Chan Chung-Yung and Chang Kuo-Chu.
A widow named Lee Jiu Jin sells herself into a remote village to raise money for her son's wedding, not knowing the terms: in a place too poor for any man to keep a wife, seven of them will share her. Terry Tong Gei-Ming's 1990 drama uses that grim arrangement to look at poverty, duty, and the price a woman pays for a family's survival. It is a hard, unsentimental period piece built on a single desperate bargain.
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What is A Woman and Seven Husbands about?
A widow named Lee Jiu Jin sells herself into a remote village to raise money for her son's wedding, not knowing the terms: in a place too poor for any man to keep a wife, seven of them will share her. Terry Tong Gei-Ming's 1990 drama uses that grim arrangement to look at poverty, duty, and the price a woman pays for a family's survival. It is a hard, unsentimental period piece built on a single desperate bargain.
When was A Woman and Seven Husbands released?
A Woman and Seven Husbands was released on 1 January 1990.
How long is A Woman and Seven Husbands?
A Woman and Seven Husbands runs 1h 45m.
Who made A Woman and Seven Husbands?
A Woman and Seven Husbands was directed by Terry Tong Gei-Ming.
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A few thoughts on A Woman and Seven Husbands
The film treats poverty as a slow, grinding fact rather than a plot device, and stays with the woman who has to live inside the deal.
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A Woman and Seven Husbands turns on a woman sold into a marriage bargain, and these Chinese period dramas share its focus on women whose fates are decided by family, money, and custom. Set across dynasties and villages, they follow heroines navigating arranged matches, obligation, and survival in worlds that rarely ask what they want.
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The desperate bargain at the center of A Woman and Seven Husbands echoes through these stories of marriage and endurance. Ha Jin's Waiting and Liu Zhenyun's courthouse novel, alongside two Chinese romance dramas, follow people trapped by weddings arranged or dissolved by others, and the long cost of trying to live inside those terms.