Winner
Berlin International Film Festival
Teddy Award for Best LGBT-related Feature Film (2007)
AsianWomenDirectorsPublic Beta
Spider Lilies
刺青 (Ci Qing)
Directed by Zero Chou (周美玲)
2007•94 min
- Genre
- Romance
- Topic
- Love & Desire
- Mood
- Lingering
- Language
- Chinese
- Featured in
- Queer Lives, Up Close
Synopsis
A daring portrait of forbidden love.
When Jade, a web-cam girl, visits Takeko's tattoo studio she becomes entranced with the image of the spider lily and with Takeko as well. In order to get closer to the object of her desire, Jade asks Takeko to give her the same lily tattoo, challenging Takeko's monastic existence and opening up memories which threaten to tear the two women apart.
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Selected Awards
Footnote
- First
One of few openly lesbian filmmakers in Taiwan
Main Cast
Rainie YangJade
Isabella Leong Lok-SzeTakekoSJShen Jian-HungChing
Jay ShihAdong
Kris ShenDavid
Li HsiuJade's grandmother
Michio HayashidaSensei Yoshi
Ivy Chen Yi-HanJenDirector
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