Hung-Wei Yeh

In 1945, during Japanese invasion, two young women raised in a nunnery guide a group of Chinese soldiers across the Taiwanese countryside. (imdb)

Five girls grow up in China during the first years of the twentieth century. When they become adults they have to learn that women are almost without rights. Other women close to them are suppressed in the most brutal way. When Mingtao is to marry a mentally deficient but rich man, she and her friends decide to escape and to search for the mythical "garden" where a woman's life is worth living. (Mirko Thiessen)

Suen Tie-Mei has grown up in the mountains and been engaged to Wong Hui when she gets pregnant. In an action against the Japanese occupation forces Wong gets killed. (imdb)