Directed by Shen Yu
Written by Yujie Qiu, Shen Yu
Starring Regina Wan, Li Gengxi, Jue Hwang
Release Date December 23rd, 2022
Published December 22nd, 2022
The Old Town Girls begins in a disjointed note. Co-writer and Director Shen Yu throws you immediately into chaos. Three adults are searching for two missing teenage daughters. One insists that they need to find the supposed kidnappers of their daughters to deliver a large ransom. One of the father's decides that waiting around isn't worth it and decides they should go to the police. At the police station with the intent of filing a missing persons report. That's when everything breaks down and suddenly we are thrown back in time.
With little in the way of context clues we must determine that we are now a few weeks in the past, prior to the events of the opening scene. The two young women who are missing in the opening scene, presumed kidnapped, are High Schoolers and loosely they are friends. Shu Qing (Li Gengxi) is a desperately shy young woman, an outcast both at school and at home. In a heartbreaking scene, we watch as she arrives to her modest home only to be told by her step-mother that she needs to stay out while grandparents are there. Shu Qing is not there granddaughter and they don't want to dine with a stranger. Ouch.
