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Lease Wife

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Lease Wife
Directed byLu Xuechang
Written byGong Xiangdong
Lu Xuechang
StarringLi Jiaxuan
Pan Yueming
CinematographyLiu Yonghong
Music byDong Wei
Release date
  • March 17, 2006 (2006-03-17) (China)
Running time
98 min.
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin
BudgetUS$205,000[1]

Lease Wife (Chinese: 租期; pinyin: Zū Qī) is a 2006 drama film directed by Lu Xuechang, and is the story of a man who pays a prostitute to pretend to be his wife when he goes back to his village to visit his family. It is also known as The Contract.[1]

Lease Wife is Lu's fourth feature film and stars Li Jiaxuan as the prostitute, Lily, and Pan Yueming as the businessman, Guo Jiaju, who hires her.

References

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  1. ^ a b Xinhua News Agency (2006-03-17). "Up-and-coming Chinese director Lu Xuechang's new film centres on prostitution". People's Daily. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
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