Director
Zhang Yimou, Fengliang Yang
Music (original)
Ru-jin Xia, Zhao Jiping
Cast
Gong Li, Wei Li, Baotian Li, Yi Zhang
Edition 1998
95'
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1990
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Drama, Romance
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Dialogue:
Mandarin
China during the 1920s. A young woman, Ju Dou is bought by the wealthy, ageing Yang Jin-shan (owner of a dye mill) to be his bride. Due to his own impotence, Ju Dou cannot bear the son Yang Jin-shan desperately wants. As a result, their marriage becomes violent and bitterly unhappy, forcing the girl into the arms of the old man's nephew Yang Tian-qing. Ju Dou conceives a boy with her lover but is forced to raise the child as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.
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Credits
Directors
Zhang Yimou, Fengliang Yang
Music (original)
Ru-jin Xia, Zhao Jiping
Cast
Gong Li, Wei Li, Baotian Li, Yi Zhang
Scenario
Heng Liu
Director of Photography
Changwei Gu, Lun Yang
Editors
Yuan Du
Production studios
China Film Group
Rights Owner
Fugitive Cinema
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Dialogue
Mandarin
Countries of production
China, Japan
Year
1990
Filmography
Zhang Yimou
Raise the Red Latern (1991), The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), Keep Cool (1997), Not One Less (1999), The Road Home (1999), Hero (2002), House of the Flying Daggers (2004), Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005), Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009), Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010), The Flowers of War (2011), Coming Home (2014), The Great Wall (2016), Shadow (2018), One Second (2020), a.o.
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