Funerals gather everyone a person left behind, including those who were never meant to meet. Little Big Women, a 2020 drama from Taiwan directed by Joseph Chen-Chieh Hsu, spends its two hours inside exactly that kind of gathering, and K-Time offers it with a Persian dub.
What is Little Big Women about?
She is elderly, proud, and happiest with a karaoke microphone in her hand. Her husband disappeared from the family's life a long time ago. Then word comes that he has died, and the relatives assemble to see him off. At the funeral she comes face to face with the woman who shared his later years: younger than she is, more polished, and seemingly at ease in a place the wife assumed was hers alone. A second blow follows. Her own children, it appears, may have stayed quietly in contact with their father through all the years of his absence. Between the rituals of mourning she has to weigh what her own endurance was worth, and to live with a sense of betrayal that now points in more than one direction.
About the cast
Grace Chen Shu-Fang is first on the cast list, with Hsieh Ying Shiuan, Vivian Hsu and Sun Ke-Fang following. Ding Ning, Chen Yan-Fei, Chang Han and Lung Shao-Hua round out the ensemble. As the title suggests, the story belongs largely to its women, and the film is built as a group portrait instead of a showcase for one star.
Context & significance
The title holds two ideas together. "Little" points to the scale of the lives on screen: a household, a song, a funeral to organise. "Big" points to what those lives have had to carry. Family dramas of this kind tend to move through small domestic moments more than through plot turns, and the premise here follows that tradition: a death does not end the questions around a man, it reopens them for the people he left. Several strands sit side by side, including a wife's self-worth after decades alone, the awkward meeting between two women tied to the same man, and children caught between loyalty to a mother and curiosity about a father. With a running time of 123 minutes, the film gives each of those threads room. It is a Taiwanese production, classified as drama.
Watching Little Big Women on Ktime
You can watch Little Big Women on K-Time, the streaming home for Persian-speaking audiences outside Iran, where the whole interface is available in Farsi. A Persian-dubbed version is provided for this title. The page you are reading is open to all; to press play, log in with your K-Time account.