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Girls on Wire

2025 · 115 min

A tense, emotionally heavy drama about desperate people on the run, with a slow-burning sense of dread and fragile hope.

Directed by: Vivian Qu
Genres: Drama
Starring: Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao

Tagline: Desperate sisters go hand in hand.
Overview: Tian Tian, the single mother of a five-year-old daughter, kills a drug dealer and is then pursued for vengeance. The only person she can turn to for help is her female cousin, Fang Di.

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Directed by: Vivian Qu
Genres: Drama
Starring: Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
family
crime
redemption
isolation
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	4
Horror	3
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Vivian Qu
Written by: Vivian Qu
Starring: Liu Haocun, Wen Qi, Zhang Youhao, Liu Yitie, Peng Jing, Jian Kang, Yang Haoyu, Zhou You
Music: Wen Zi
Runtime: 115 min
Country: China
Languages: Mandarin

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