TV series
The Ninth Widow
2012–2013 · 1 season
A quiet, heavy endurance test of a drama, watching one woman bear decades of hardship with stubborn, unsentimental dignity.
- Starring
- Michelle Ye Xuan, Liu Peiqi, Li Jie
- Overview
- The Ninth Widow tells a story of a woman villager Wang Pu-tao (Grape) from an isolated part of Central China who loses her family in early childhood in a flood disaster. She is bought as a servant and widowed at age 14. Wang hides a fugitive man (her father-in-law) in her cellar and cares for him for the next 30 years, through political campaigns, famines, and various man-made disasters
- How it feels
- Bleak, melancholic, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Survival, isolation, loyalty, trauma
- Content
- Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Starring
- Michelle Ye Xuan, Liu Peiqi, Li Jie
