Ju Dou

Year: 1990

Runtime: 95 mins

Language: Chinese

Director: Zhang Yimou

Drama

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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