The Bride with White Hair

This article is about the 1993 film. For the 2012 television series, see The Bride with White Hair (TV series).

The Bride with White Hair
Film poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese白髮魔女傳
Simplified Chinese白发魔女传
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBái Fà Mó Nǚ Zhuàn
Directed byRonny Yu
Screenplay by
  • David Wu
  • Jason Lam Kee-To
  • Bik-Yin Tang
  • Ronny Yu[1]
Based onBaifa Monü Zhuan
by Liang Yusheng[1]
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyPeter Pau[1]
Edited byDavid Wu[1]
Music byRichard Yuen[1]
Production
company
Mandarin Film[2]
Release date
  • August 1993 (1993-08) (Hong Kong)
CountryHong Kong[3]
Box officeHK$20 million

The Bride with White Hair is a 1993 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Ronny Yu, starring Brigitte Lin and Leslie Cheung.

The film's main character, Lian Nichang, is loosely based on the protagonist of Liang Yusheng's novel Baifa Monü Zhuan, which served as source material for the 1982 film Wolf Devil Woman. However, Yu saw the film as a Romeo and Juliet story and said that the lovers' struggle against fate and their heroic duty inspired him more than the familiar trappings of most wuxia films.[4] As such, the film departs significantly from the original source.

A sequel, The Bride with White Hair 2, directed by David Wu, was released later in the same year.

  1. ^ a b c d e f The Bride With White Hair (booklet). Eureka! Video. 2020. p. 4. EKA70399.
  2. ^ The Bride With White Hair (Back cover). Eureka! Video. 2020. EKA70399.
  3. ^ Crow.
  4. ^ "Mad Blood Stirring" (p. 4) by Eleanor M. Farrell