The Bride with White Hair

The Bride with White Hair (traditional Chinese: 白髮魔女傳) is a 1993 Hong Kong Wuxia film directed by Ronny Yu. The film's main character, Lien Ni-Chang, is very loosely based on the protagonist of Liang Yusheng's novel Romance of the White Haired Maiden, which had earlier served as source material for the 1982 film Wolf Devil Woman . However the director Yu himself saw the film as a “Romeo and Juliet” story and said that the lovers’ struggle against... more

The Bride with White Hair (traditional Chinese: 白髮魔女傳) is a 1993 Hong Kong Wuxia film directed by Ronny Yu. The film's main character, Lien Ni-Chang, is very loosely based on the protagonist of Liang Yusheng's novel Romance of the White Haired Maiden, which had earlier served as source material for the 1982 film Wolf Devil Woman . However the director Yu himself 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 martial arts adventures . As such the movie departs significantly from the original source . A sequel The Bride with White Hair 2 was made a year later and directed by David Wu Dai-Wai. Cho Yi-Hang (Leslie Cheung) was raised by Taoist Tzu Yang (Pao Fong) of the Wu-Tang Clan and groomed into a fine young swordsman with a sense of chivalry and righteousness. He is placed in command of a coalition army formed by the Eight Great Clans of the Central Plains to... less