The Twin Bracelets (1991)
June 5, 1991Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Winnie Lau Siu-Wai
Hsiu
Vivian Chan
Hui-hua
Carrie Choi
Actress
Michael Tao Tai-Yu
Hui-hua's Brother
Wong Yat-fei
Singing Man
Huang Yu-Shan
Director
Suk-Wah Leung
Writer
Fabio Carli
Composer
Bob Thompson
Cinematographer
Roger Kwok
Kuang
Lo Ta-yu
Original Music Composer
Leung Suk-Wah
Writer
Lau Tin-Chi
Producer
Cheung Kwok-Kuen
Editor
Chan Man Fai
Makeup Artist
Chang Hon-Kong
Makeup Artist
Lee Kwok-Gwong
Costume Design / Art Direction
Chan Bing-Yim
Costume Design
Chan Wan-Yue
Mak Yan-Wa
Chow Tin-Dak
Chung Yeung
Lily Lai-Lai Liu
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Twin Bracelets is a film produced in 1990 by Cosmopolitan Film Productions Co., a Hong Kong-based company that forms part of the film production conglomerate run by the Shaw brothers who are the owners of the Shaw Brothers Studio. S.L.Wei notes that "Twin Bracelets was shown at international film festivals." It has "won the 1992 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Award for Best Feature." John Charles called Twin Bracelets "(a) somber, engrossing drama" that is "marred only by the inevitability of its narrative." The film has been labeled a ‘lesbian’ film, but also a ‘feminist’ film. Some critics have also focused on what they took to be its ethnological aspects. Such aspects do indeed form the background of Zhaohuan Lu's short story ‘The Twin Bracelets’ (1986) which served as the basis of the film script written by the film director, Huang Yu-shan. Huang Yushan who initially worked for Central Motion Picture Company (CMPC) and for the Shaw Bros. is a director who has made a choice in favor of independent film. In her life and work she is attached to feminism. According to Bérénice Reynaud, she is "one of the rare women to work in the Taiwanese film industry." Prof Lai has called Huang Yu-shan "Taiwan's major feminist director." S.L. Wei sees Huang as "an important voice in Taiwanese women's cinema. The fact that her film Twin Bracelets received relatively much attention "enabled Huang to have in-depth discussions with American independent filmmakers and feminist directors. From then on she began to push consciously forward [with] films about women."