The Bride with White Hair
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| 白髮魔女傳 | |
| Directed by | Ronny Yu |
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| Based on | Baifa Monü Zhuan by Liang Yusheng |
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| Cinematography | Peter Pau |
| Edited by | David Wu |
| Music by | Richard Yuen |
Production company | Mandarin Film |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$20 million |
The Bride with White Hair (白髮魔女傳) is a 1993 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Ronny Yu, starring Brigitte Lin and Leslie Cheung.
The film's main character, Lian Nichang, is loosely based on the protagonist of Liang Yusheng's novel Baifa Monü Zhuan, which served as source material for the 1982 film Wolf Devil Woman. However, Ronny Yu saw the film as a Romeo and Juliet story and said that the lovers' struggle against fate and their heroic duty inspired him more than the familiar trappings of most wuxia films. As such, the film departs significantly from the original source.
A sequel, The Bride with White Hair 2, directed by David Wu, was released later in the same year.