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    Mi Mi LEE 1980 Taiwan Feature color 95min Chinese DCP
    Shih-Yen is upset about Ko-Ching prioritizing her career over their marriage and even getting an abortion without his knowledge. To express discontent, Shih-Yen moves in with his mistress. Despite feeling overwhelmed by her messy personal life, Ko-Ching manages to lead her company and delivers a successful fashion show. The film reflects on career women’s struggles between family and work, it also describes the gender role stereotypes in a marriage. Although the film demonstrates clearly women’s difficult role in society, it still chooses to show the possibility of women being independent, capable and charming to refute the status quo of patriarchy.

    Director

    Mi Mi LEE

    Born in Chaozhou, Pingtung in 1946, shortly after graduating from Shih Hsin University, Mi-Mi LEE joined the crew of The Story of a Deity (1969) as a script supervisor for Japanese director YAMANOUCHI Tetsuya, who she considered the first person to illuminate her path to filmmaking. She continued to work as a script supervisor on multiple films including Four Moods (1970), co-director by LEE Hsing. She was also the assistant director for directors PAN Lei and WANG Yu. Mi-Mi LEE made her first directorial film in 1972 with the Taiwanese-language film Pure Love and went on to direct and independently produce three feature films in the early 1980s, including Evening News, Unmarried Mothers, and Girls’ School dubbed as the “Taiwanese Urban Female Trilogy.” Her films have a distinctive auteur approach: simple yet bold composition, smooth cutting, vivid female characters, and a story containing an idealistic vision of a “female utopia”. Throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, she was the youngest female director in TTV at that time. She was one of the primary directors for primetime dramas produced by Taiwan’s three major television stations (TTV, CTV, CTS), making an early start in the industry as a professional television show director.

    Mi Mi LEE

    導演：李美彌

    出品人：李循文

    監製：程剛

    製片：賈培群

    編劇：宋項如

    作曲：左宏元

    攝影：陳榮樹

    剪輯：林善良

    配樂：黃茂山

    國家電影及視聽文化中心
    Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
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