Movie Reviews: Three Husbands

Three Husbands (Chinese: 三夫) is a 2018 Hong Kong film directed by Fruit Chan , starring Zeng Meihuizi, Chan Charm-man. It is the last instalment of his “prostitution trilogy” which Chan directed from 2000–2018. The other two movies in the trilogy are Durian Durian (Qin Hailu as lead actress 2000), Hollywood Hong Kong (Zhou Xun as lead actress 2001). Three lead actresses (Starring in his “prostitution trilogy”) are all nominated at Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress. It premiered at the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival on October 26, 2018.

In her boldest performance yet, Zeng Meihuizi stars as a woman who lives on the sea with her three husbands. With an overactive libido, she heartily devotes herself to her work as a prostitute. As in the trilogy’s two previous films, Chan uses the world’s oldest profession to satirise the state of contemporary Hong Kong.