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Hands in the Hair

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Hands in the Hair
Traditional Chinese做頭
Simplified Chinese做头
Hanyu PinyinZuòtóu
Directed byJiang Cheng
Written byZhang Xian
Based onA Beauty by Tang Ying
Produced byStanley Kwan
StarringRosamund Kwan
Wallace Huo
Francis Ng
CinematographyLu Yuqing
Edited byZhu Peipei
Music byAn dong
Production
companies
Distributed bySil-Metropole Organisation
Release dates
  • 7 March 2005 (2005-03-07) (China)
  • 14 April 2005 (2005-04-14) (Hong Kong)
Running time
minutes
CountriesChina
Hong Kong
LanguagesMandarin
Cantonese

Hands in the Hair (Chinese: 做頭) is a 2005 Chinese-Hong Kong romantic ethical film directed by Jiang Cheng and produced by Stanley Kwan. The film stars Rosamund Kwan, Wallace Huo and Francis Ng. It is produced jointly by Shanghai Film Group Corporation and Shanghai Film Studio. The film is an adaptation of Tang Ying's 1995 novel of A Beauty (红颜). The film picks up the extramarital love story of a Shanghai named woman Aini and her lover Ah Hua. Hands in the Hair premiered in mainland China on 7 March 2005 and released in Hong Kong on 14 April 2005.

Cast

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  • Rosamund Kwan as Aini
  • Wallace Huo as Ah Hua
  • Francis Ng as Aini's husband
  • Yang Lu as Lu Lu
  • Zhu Hong as An Weiya
  • Mao Yongming as Ah Fu
  • Wang Hui as Jin Ping
  • Gu Zhujun as Xiao Wang
  • Guo Xiaoting as Yao Yao
  • Zhan Huakang as the neighbor

Production

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Shanghai Film Group Corporation and Shanghai Film Studio bought the film rights to the 1995 novel A Beauty (红颜) written by Tang Ying. Zhang Xian, the husband of Tang Ying, signed on to write the script for the film. While for the most part a faithful retelling of the novel, the screenplay does contain minor deviation.[1]

Director Jiang Cheng revealed that actress Michelle Reis was considered as the female lead at first, after conversation, Jiang Cheng found that she was not suitable for the feminine lead.[2]

Release

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The film was released on March 7, 2005, in mainland China, and on April 14, in Hong Kong.

References

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  1. ^ 关之琳霍建华将来京出席《做头》首映式(附图). sina (in Chinese). 19 February 2005.
  2. ^ Xia Jing; Cen Wenyu (8 May 2004). 关之琳新片中感性《做头》. 163.com (in Chinese).
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