The Chinese film has been selected for the main competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
'The Unseen Sister' director Midi Z and star Zhao Liying at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival., which dealt with the exploitation of women in entertainment, and was released in the midst of the global #MeToo movement, a long overdue public reckoning for powerful men who had committed acts of sexual violence and misconduct.— that is, the habitual abuse of women in the entertainment industry as well as the trials of women at the margins of society.
Were there any specific challenges working on a bigger scale for you as a director? Did your process change in any way?I think the most important part is communication, specifically communication with the actors. Within a story, within a production, the chemistry and the performance of the actors are actually much more important than the story itself, because the actors are the people that brings out the story.
For you as an actor, Zhao, do you speak the Yunnan dialect? If not, was that a real challenge to get right?No I don’t speak it. We spent about a month before production to work on the dialect specifically to go through all of the lines that the script has in the Yunnan dialect, so that we can be more comfortable during production. That’s how we overcame the difficulty working with a different dialect.
And the themes are universal themes. My films are really expressive about people’s lives. In order to speak to the audience, you really have to understand what lives they’re going through. And really this movie is about women and what they’re going through in society, the difficulties that they’re facing and their struggle. Their fight against whatever it is that is suppressing them, their desire and their yearning for freedom and for a better life.
Regarding whether the character was relatable… obviously, the story, it’s very dramatic. Sure I can relate to a certain extent, but of course these are very dramatic experiences that the character is going through. It doesn’t really happen in real life. The overall pressure, the suppression that faces at work, I can definitely relate to that specific thing. There’s a scene where my character is filming a scene in hospital and she’s being stabbed with a needle, that really triggered me.
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