Woman Sesame Oil Maker

Infobox Film | name = Woman Sesame Oil Maker


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director = Xie Fei
producer =
writer = Xie Fei, based on a story by Zhou Daxin
starring = Siqin Gaowa
music =
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Facets Multimedia (Region 1 DVD)
released = flagicon|China 1993
flagicon|USA February 16 1994 (NYC only)
runtime = 105 min.
language = Mandarin
budget =
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imdb_id = 0108608
amg_id= 1:161888

"Woman Sesame Oil Maker" (zh-cp|c=香魂女|p=Xiāng hú nǚ) is a 1993 Chinese film in the Mandarin language. In the English speaking world it has been released on VHS under the title "Women from the Lake of Scented Souls" and more recently on DVD as "Woman Sesame Oil Maker".

The film is directed by Xie Fei and tells the story of a woman who runs a small sesame oil business that becomes unexpectedly successful; success then brings problems.

The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1993.

External links

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* [http://www.dianying.com/en/title/xhn1993 "Woman Sesame Oil Maker"] at the Chinese Movie Database
* [http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/cinema-china/lectures.html "Xie Fei's "Black Snow" and "Women from the Lake of Scented Souls": Men and Women getting by in post-Mao China"] podcast of a lecture by Dr. Julian Ward, University of Edinburgh

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title=Golden Bear winner
years=1993 tied with
"The Wedding Banquet"
before="Grand Canyon"
after="In the Name of the Father"