Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

The Lady Avenger

YANG Chia-Yun 1981 Taiwan Fiction color 90min DVD
A determined journalist persuing a rape case turns into a goddess of revenge after being brutally gang raped. Female director Yang Chia-Yun managed to smuggle in feminist critiques of gender stereotypes and of the genre itself rarely seen in Taiwanese films at the time.

Director

YANG Chia-Yun

A Taiwanese director accomplished in genre-hybrids and the only female director who contributed to the Taiwan Pulp (social-realist film) frenzy from the late 1970s to mid 1980s.

YANG Chia-Yun

1978 《晨霧》 Morning Mist

1980 《美麗與哀愁》 Love Comes from the Sea

1981 《小葫蘆》 The Unsinkable Miss Calabash

1981 《瘋狂女煞星》 The Lady Avenger

1982 《冷眼殺機》  Exposed to Danger

1983 《金門女兵》 Women Warriors of Kingmen

1998 《阿媽的秘密》 A Secret Buries For 50 Years

Director: YANG Chia-Yun
Producer: FENG Yue-Ju
Screenplay: CHU Yun
Camera: LIN Zi-Rong
Editor: JIANG Huang-Xiong
Music: YUE Xun

 

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