She, A Chinese

[Machine Translation] Winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival 2009 (top prize) ! Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the 2009 Hamburg Film Festival! The exciting life of a modern, carnivorous Chinese woman, as portrayed by a female Chinese director! --Mei comes to Chongqing from a small village deep in the mountains in search of the hustle and bustle, but her life is very different from what she had dreamed of. She is soon fired from her factory, finds work in a seedy barbershop, and falls in love with Spikey, a gangster who lives nearby. But it doesn't last long, and one night late at night, Spikey returns home with a fatal wound to his back and dies right before her eyes. May scraped together enough money to escape her pursuers and traveled to London, a place Spikey had long admired. There she meets and marries an old man named Hunt, but soon realizes that her life is mundane and boring. The old Hunt reads the newspaper when he goes for a walk along the river, and refuses to move when he sunbathes in the garden. Young May can't stand it, so she moves in with Richard, an Indian immigrant who runs a small restaurant. Richard suddenly announces that he is going back to India, and May is already pregnant with his child...

Special Feature / Bonus Track: original trailer (subject to change)

2009年ロカルノ国際映画祭金豹賞受賞(最高賞)! 2009年ハンブルグ映画祭 脚本賞受賞! 中国の女流監督が描く、現代肉食系中国女性の刺激的人生! ――山奥の小さな村から喧騒を求めて重慶に出てきたメイだが、その生活は本人が夢見ていたものと大きく違った。彼女はすぐに工場を首になり、いかがわしい床屋で職を見つけて、そのそばに住むやくざのスパイキーと恋仲になる。しかし、それも長くは続かず、ある日の深夜、スパイキーが背中に致命傷を負って帰ってくると彼女の眼の前で息を引き取った。メイは追手から逃れるために有り金をかき集めると、かねてからスパイキーの憧れの地だったロンドンへ旅立つ。彼女はそこで、ハントという老人と出会い結婚するが、すぐにその生活が平凡で退屈なものだと気づかされる。年老いたハントは川沿いに散歩に行けば新聞に読みふけり、庭で日光浴をすれば動こうとしない。若いメイはそれに耐えられず、次に、小さなレストランを経営していたインド人移民のリチャードの処へ転がり込む。ところがリチャードが突然、インドに帰ると言いだし、その時すでに、メイはお腹の中に彼の子を宿していたが・・・。

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