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| Alias: Bride from Hell |
| Alias: The Bride Who Has Returned from Hell |
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Origin: Taiwan
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Language:
Hokkien
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Genres:
Mystery
Drama
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Release Date (Taiwan): 09/08/1965
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| Summary |
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The movie opens with a boat accident. A male body is discovered. While a woman's purse is also left at the scene, no female body is found. Entrepreneur Wang Yiming (Ke Junxiong) is led to believe that his wife eloped with her lover and was drowned at sea. Feeling hurt and humiliated, Yiming is unable to show affection toward his daughter, Shuyuan (Xiao Hui), and subsequently gains a reputation as an uninterested father, ill-tempered master and irresponsible playboy. Yiming employs Bai Ruimei (Jin Mei) to be a private tutor to Shuyuan. There is another young girl in Wang's household, A-Lan (Dai Peishan), who is the granddaughter of Yiming's employee, Manageress Liu (Yue Fan). Ruimei takes both girls under her wing. As it turns out, Ruimei is Yiming's sister-in-law. She has come to Taiwan from Singapore to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her sister.
The Bride Who Has Returned from Hell was meant to be a star vehicle for Dai's daughter who played the role of A-Lan in the film. According to the director, Xin Qi, while most Taiwanese-language movies would finish shooting after ten or fifteen days, Dai allowed him twenty-six days to work on this particular project to maximize the quality of the film. Moreover, special treatment was designed to emphasize the importance of A-Lan's character. For example, when A-Lan first appears, she sneaks around, creeps behind the wall and bushes and moves between light and shadow, which creates a striking and mysterious impression for both the character and the film |
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