Apr 21, 1990
95 min
Full-HD

Ju Dou (1990)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

China Japan

Companies

China Film Co-Production Corp. Xi'an Film Studio

Gong Li

菊豆

Li Wei

杨金山

Li Baotian

杨天青

Niu Xingli

杨氏宗族的族长

Jia Zhaoji

二赖子

Zhang Yi

童年杨天白

Ji-an Zheng

少年杨天白

Ma Chong

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