The Wedding Maidens (1990)

Release Date: 1990-09-10
Runtime: 1h 34min
Production Company: Pearl River Film Studio
Production Country: China
Director: Wang Jin

Five young girls in a remote mountain village each find themselves forced into unhappy marriages. Together, they find solace in an old legend, that a girl may hang herself before marriage and retain her purity, her soul turning into a white bird and soaring to the heavenly garden, where there is only beauty and peace.