Our Sister Hedy

(Si qian jin)

Doe Ching
Hong Kong, 1957
  • Introduction
    Paul Fonoroff

    Paul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok.

featuring

Jeanette Lin Tsui, Julie Yeh Feng, Dolly Soo Fung, Mu Hong,

Musical opening credits introduce the four grown Kong sisters: Hilda, Helen, Hedy, and Hazel. They live under one roof with their widower father. Hedy, the titular tomboy (a fencing instructor, preternaturally good at tennis), plays matchmaker for the workhorse of the family, the eldest, Hilda. The statuesque, seductive Helen keeps getting in the way. The youngest, Hazel, elopes. The sisters quarrel, as families do, as they navigate an interweaving series of marriage plots reminiscent of Jane Austen. Director Doe Ching “casts the four actresses in roles that fit perfectly like a glove” (Hong Kong Film Archive).

Jeff Griffith-Perham
FILM DETAILS 

Screenwriter

  • Doe Ching

Based On

  • the novel Four Sisters by Cheng Wai

Cinematographer

  • Charles Tung Shao-yung

Language

  • Mandarin
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 115 mins

Source

  • Hong Kong Film Archive

Permission

  • Cathay-Keris Films Pte. Ltd.

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