The Twin Bracelets

The Twin Bracelets (1991)

雙鐲

Two teenage girls make a pledge to each other to be as "man and wife" in a small Chinese fishing town. The notions of women's rights or sexual freedom are absent in their oppressive patriarchal culture, and when one becomes happily married to a stranger, the other is cruelly betrothed to the abusive son of a wealthy family. Seeking to free herself from a lifetime of abuse, Hui-hua desperately looks for a way out.

Date of release
1991-06-05
TMDB
2.8 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Drama
Director
Huang Yu-Shan

Casting

Interesting facts

The Twin Bracelets is a 1991 Hong Kong film directed by Huang Yu-shan. It stars Winnie Lau, Vivian Chan, and Roger Kwok. The film tells the deep bond between two coastal village teenage girls, their struggles to conform to their village's social norms and marital traditions, and the different paths they took when the inevitable comes.

Production

The film was produced by Cosmopolitan Film Productions Co., a Hong Kong-based company that formed part of the film production conglomerate run by the Shaw brothers who are the owners of the Shaw Brothers Studio.

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