Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (1993)

Women from the Lake of Scented Souls 1993 / 香魂女 1993 / Xiang Hun Nu , Woman Sesame Oil Maker

In a rural area of China, a woman makes the best sesame oil in the neighborhood. A Japanese businesswoman wants to buy her oil and proposes to modernize the oil mill. The woman agrees to cooperate. Her son is in love with a local girl, but the girl's parents don't let her marry him because of the boy's epilepsy. However, using the poor financial state of the girl's family, the woman arranges this uneasy marriage.