THE WOMAN OF WRATH (2K RESTORATION)

The young, fatherless LIN Shih witnesses her mother killing herself with a knife in the ancestral shrine. She is rebuked by elder relatives for selling her body to support her daughter. Orphaned, LIN Shih is then taken in by her uncle. As LIN Shih grows up, she obediently marries a butcher named Chiang-shui, as instructed by her uncle.

It turns out that Chiang-shui treats LIN Shih merely as a tool to satisfy his sexual needs and as a property. The brutality LIN Shih suffers on their wedding night and the bowl of pork rice served afterwards symbolize that LIN Shih’s body and survival rights are controlled by Chiang-shui. The abusive marriage, the gossip circulating in the village, and the childhood memories slowly drive LIN Shih to a nervous breakdown. One day, while Chiang-shui is fast asleep, LIN Shih kills him with the knife he uses to slaughter pigs.