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Ju Dou (1990) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1990 · 95 mins · Chinese
- Directed by
- Zhang Yimou
- Starring
- Li Wei, Zhang Yi, Gong Li, Li Baotian, Niu Xingli, Jia Zhaoji
A woman wed to the brutal, infertile owner of a rural Chinese dye mill bears a child with her husband’s nephew, yet must conceal the boy’s true paternity and raise him as her husband’s heir. Shot in vivid technicolour, the film weaves erotic longing, family loyalty and rigid tradition into a universal, circular tragedy.
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