The Arch 董夫人

About The Arch

In 17th-century rural China, Madame Tung, a respected widowed teacher and doctor, earns imperial recognition for her virtue. When she houses a group of soldiers, she and their young captain, Yang Kwan, fall quietly in love. After Tung’s daughter also becomes attached to the captain, Tung urges their marriage, suppressing her own desire out of fear of scandal and loyalty to her late husband.

The screening will be preceded by an extended introduction.

KASKcinema

Wednesday 11 March

20:00

Tickets on sale: 13 January

The Arch 董夫人

Tang Shu Shuen

4K Restored

1968

95 min

Mandarin

Subtitles: English

Director Tang Shu Shuen

Tang Shu Shuen (°1941) was a pioneering Hong Kong film director and the territory’s first widely recognized woman filmmaker. Though her directing career was brief, she helped introduce socially critical art cinema to Hong Kong and founded its first serious film journal, Close-Up, in 1976. After emigrating to the United States in 1979, she became a restaurateur, while her influence lived on in the Hong Kong New Wave of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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