Hui's films reflect diverse female images. Firstly, she creates submissive women, for example, with Sum Ching in "The Story of Woo Viet" (1982), Cam Nuong in "Boat People" (1982), Mang Tit Lan in "Zodiac Killers" (1991), and Ling in "Night and Fog" (2009). Facing the injustice of life, these women will only passively accept the arrangement of fate, and silently endure the hardship of life. Director Hui gives more attention and sympathy to such women, and such films permeate her deep thinking on female destiny. However, Hui also creates female characters with strong sense of rebellion, such as Bai Liu-Su in "Love in a Fallen City" (1984), May Sun in "Summer Snow" (1995), Gu Manzhen in "Eighteen Springs" (1997), and Xiao Hong in "The Golden Era" (2014), etc. In these films, women are no longer the submissive and coward appendages of traditional patriarchy. Instead, they become women who are courageous to fight for their rights.