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Ju Dou (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Chinese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
China ( India, Eastern Asia )
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Fengliang Yang
Yimou Zhang

Written By:
Heng Liu

Actors:
Ma Chong ..... Ju Dou
Zhijun Cong ..... Yang Tian-qing
Wu Fa ..... Yang Jin-shan
Li Gong ..... Tianbai as child
Jia Jin ..... Yang Tian-bai as a Youth
Baotian Li
Wei Li
Xingli Niu
Yang Qianbin
Zhang Yi
Jia Zhaoji
Ji-an Zheng

Synopsis:

In Zhang Yimou and Fengliang Yang's sensuous, Oscar-nominated Ju Dou (1990), billowing bolts of red, yellow and blue dyed silk have more freedom than any of the main characters, who are cut off from the possibility of happiness by circumstances and convention. The trouble starts early, when Tian-qing (Li Baotian) returns from a long road trip and first sets eyes on his new aunt, the beautiful young Ju Dou (Gong Li). Tian-qing's selfish, harsh silk-dyer uncle Jin-shan (Li Wei) - who reluctantly took Tian-qing in after his parents died - has already gone through two wives, and at first his third seems likely to join her predecessors. Jin-shan routinely beats and humiliates Ju Dou at night, berating her for failing to give him a son (he blames her despite his own impotence and sterility). Tian-qing is drawn to his lovely, sorrowful 'aunt,' and eventually they begin a torrid affair. But the strict rules and customs of 1920s China make it impossible for them to build a life together, even after Jin-shan becomes paralyzed and Ju Dou gives birth to Tian-qing's son (whom Jin-shan claims as his own).

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. 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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