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Released
2011 · FILM

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Directed by
Wayne Wang
Written by
Angela Workman, Ron Bass
Runtime
104 min
DramaHistory

Synopsis

The narrative takes place in nineteenth‑century China and follows the enduring friendship of two girls who create a private code to cope with the strict cultural expectations placed upon women.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Deirdre SlevinShot by Richard WongScored by Rachel PortmanDesigned by Lim Chung Man

Box Office

2011 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.3M

Budget$134K
Worldwide gross$1.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $211K

Peak 24 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Seidenfächerde
  • Il ventaglio segretoit

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