The Silent Wife
DVD cover

Traditional Chinese	啞女情深
Simplified Chinese	哑女情深
Literal meaning	Mute Girl Has Deep Feelings

Hanyu Pinyin	Yǎ Nǚ Qíng Shēn


Directed by	Li Hsing
Written by	Liu Yi Chiung Yao
Produced by	Hu Chien-chung
Starring	Wang Mo-chou Ko Chun-hsiung
Cinematography	Lai Cheng-ying
Edited by	Chen Hung-min
Music by	Tso Hung-yuan
Production company	Central Motion Pictures Corporation
Release date	31 December 1965 (1965-12-31)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Taiwan
Language	Mandarin

The Silent Wife is a 1965 Taiwanese drama film directed by Li Hsing,^[1] based on Chiung Yao's 1964 novelette.

Cast

Awards and nominations

The film was also selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[2]

Films directed by Li Hsing

Adaptations of works by Chiung Yao

Adaptations of works by Chiung Yao
Wan-chun's Three Loves	Four Loves (1965) Wan-chun (1990)
Ya Qi	The Silent Wife (1965) Mute Wife (1990)
Fire and Rain	The Rain of Sorrow (1965) Lovers Under the Rain (1986) Romance in the Rain (2001)
Ting Yuan Shen Shen	You Can't Tell Him (1971) Deep Garden (1987)
Zai Shui Yi Fang	The Unforgettable Character (1975) One Side of the Water (1988)
Huan Zhu Ge Ge (characters)	My Fair Princess (1998–99) My Fair Princess III (2003) New My Fair Princess (2011)
Other works	Outside the Window (1973) The Young Ones (1973) The Wild Goose on the Wing (1979) My Cape of Many Dreams (1981) Green Green Grass By The River (1992) Flowers in Fog (2013) Dreams Link (2007)

Taiwanese submission for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Taiwanese submission for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
1957–1980	Amina (1957) Lovers' Rock (1964) The Silent Wife (1966) Execution in Autumn (1972) Eight Hundred Heroes (1976) The Legend of the Six Dynasty (1980)
1981–2000	If I Were for Real (1981) The Battle for the Republic of China (1982) Growing Up (1983) Old Mao's Second Spring (1984) Kuei-Mei, a Woman (1985) The Heroic Pioneers (1986) Osmanthus Alley (1987) My Mother's Teahouse (1988) A City of Sadness (1989) Song of the Exile (1990) A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Secret Love for the Peach Blossom Spring (1992) The Wedding Banquet (1993) Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Super Citizen Ko (1995) Tonight Nobody Goes Home (1996) Yours and Mine (1997) Flowers of Shanghai (1998) March of Happiness (1999) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
2001–2020	The Cabbie (2001) The Best of Times (2002) Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) 20 30 40 (2004) The Wayward Cloud (2005) Blue Cha Cha (2006) Island Etude (2007) Cape No. 7 (2008) Cannot Live Without You (2009) Monga (2010) Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011) Touch of the Light (2012) Soul (2013) Ice Poison (2014) The Assassin (2015) Hang in There, Kids! (2016) Small Talk (2017) The Great Buddha+ (2018) Dear Ex (2019) A Sun (2020)
2021–present	The Falls (2021) Goddamned Asura (2022) Marry My Dead Body (2023)