One suspects writer-director Carol Lai may have harboured some Black Swan ambitions with a tale that also centers around a stage practitioner who embarks on an unwitting destructive journey when playing a role to die for. The Second Woman, whose Chinese title Romance Riddle may hold better clues as to how this film developed, being more of a guessing game that threw constant clues rather than a overly romantic film about twins falling in love with a man who decided it's perfectly OK to string both women along, until he discovers that this spells double trouble.
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The Second Woman Cast
Name |
Character |
Shu Qi
She was 35, now 48 years old
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as Wai Heung / Wai Bo |
Shawn Yue
He was 30, now 43 years old
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as Fong Yik Nan |
Chen Shu
She was 352, 76 years old when she died
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as Amy |
Niu Mengmeng
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as Fan |
Xi Meijuan
She was 56, now 69 years old
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The Second Woman Crew