Five Girls and a Rope
1990, Chinese. Directed by Hung-Wei Yeh.
Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living.
- Runtime
- 2h 3m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Chinese
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- Released
- 1 April 1990
- Original title
- 五個女子和一根繩子
- Country
- Taiwan
- Written by
- Xiao Mao, Hung-Wei Yeh, Chia-Hua Lau
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Five Girls and a Rope runs 123 minutes (2h 3m).
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Five Girls and a Rope isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 April 1990. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
What movies are like Five Girls and a Rope?
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Who directed Five Girls and a Rope?
Five Girls and a Rope (1990) was directed by Hung-Wei Yeh and stars Jing Ai, Chang Shih, Ying Chang.