The Bride with White Hair

Director: Ronny Yu, Ronny Yu

1993 / 89min / DCP

Hell hath no fury like Brigitte Lin scorned in this high watermark of the early ’90s wuxia revival, in which Cheung’s swordsman goes gaga for Lin while battling a nefarious cult led by conjoined twins, only for the two to separate over a misunderstanding, causing the bereaved Lin to turn into an ivory-tressed killer with a mania for revenge. An exuberant, kinetic, and dazzlingly daffy work of pop moviemaking from veteran director Yu which played to packed Hong Kong cinemas in the summer of ’93.