Bride kidnapping
The 1960 Hong Kong film "Qiangpin" ("The Bride Hunter") portrays the custom in the format of an all-female Yue opera comedy, in which Xia Meng plays a gender-bending role as a man masquerading as a woman. Bride kidnapping is displayed somewhat humorously in Pedro Almodóvar's 1990 Spanish hit "¡Átame!" ("Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!"), starring Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril. It is the underlying theme behind the 2005 Korean movie "The Bow". In the 2006 comedy "", the eponymous fictional reporter Borat, played by British comedian/satirist Sacha Baron Cohen, attempts to kidnap Canadian actress Pamela Anderson in order to take her as his wife. He brings a "wedding sack" which he has made for the occasion, suggesting that such kidnappings are a tradition in his parody of Kazakhstan.