Woman Sesame Oil Maker
香魂女
1993
Golden Bear — 43rd Berlin International Film Festival
- Director:
- Xie Fei
- Starring:
- Siqin Gaowa, Wu Yujuan
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Illiterate villager Second Sister Xiang was sold as a tongyangxi (child bride) to her present husband, a man with a lame leg, when she was seven. She has an intellectually disabled son Dunzi, who has epileptic fits and is now grown up, and a younger daughter Zhi'er. Through her diligence she has started a successful sesame oil mill and now becomes the richest person in her village.