The Second Woman
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.
Genre: Romance, Thriller, Drama
Actor: Shawn Yue, Xi Meijuan, Shu Qi, Chen Shu, Niu Mengmeng
Production: China Movie Channel, Stars Shine Blue Sea Productions, Sun Entertainment Culture