Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji, the husband and wife, Japanese-Chinese directing duo behind “Stonewalling” and “Egg and Stone” have secured multi-national backing for their upcoming fourth film project “A Woman Builds.” The film will depict a Chinese woman forced to live apart from her Japanese husband and their daughter during the pandemic and learning to enjoy the newfound freedom of a pseudo single life.
She finds a unique massage parlor to satisfy her sexual needs and decides to build a house back in her home village, despite her husband’s disapproval. “The idea started when Huang considered building a house for herself in China after the disruption of the pandemic,” the pair said. “From that point, we start reflecting on contemporary women in their forties and older, they worry about the lives they are living now and their lives when they grow old.
They want to have more control of their lives, have more say on what happiness means to them instead of being defined only by their responsibilities to their husbands, children and families.
They yearn for their own space and time.” The pair’s production company YGP-Films has been joined by prolific Singapore-based producer and co-production firm Akanga Film Asia and Island X Pictures from Taiwan.
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