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The Bride With White Hair (1993)

Directed by Ronny Yu · Cinematography by Peter Pau Tak-Hai

92 min44 frames

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What is The Bride With White Hair about?

The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against foreign tribes and an evil cult. One day, he meets the beautiful Lien, a killer for the evil cult who is equally unsatisfied with her situation, but their love angers both the Wu-Tang clan and the evil cult.

The Bride with White Hair (白髮魔女傳) is a 1993 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Ronny Yu. The film's main character, Lian Nichang, is based on the protagonist of Liang Yusheng's novel Baifa Monü Zhuan. In the film, Leslie Cheung plays Zhuo Yihang, an undisciplined member of the Wudang clan, who falls in love with Brigitte Lin's character Lian Nichang. Its discovered that Nichang was raised by wolves and then taken in by an evil cult. Despite this the two fall in love and vow to never leave each other, which leads to problems after their respective sects are both against such a pairing.

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What does the cinematography of The Bride With White Hair look like?

Sampled across 44 frames, the coverage of The Bride With White Hair leans on close-ups (39% of the sample) and medium shots (23%). Cinematographer Peter Pau Tak-Hai keeps 64% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 91% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 73% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of The Bride With White Hair?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Bride With White Hair (1993) are #090506, #03142c, #2d110e, #8b080a, #0b2c4b, #ff0400 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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