Ju Dou (1991)
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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 12 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Synopsis: During the 1920s, Yang Tian-qing goes to work at his uncle Yang Jin-Shan's dye factory in a mountainous village in China. He soon realizes that Jin-Shan, an impotent older man, is physically abusing Ju Dou, a young woman he purchased as a bride. As time goes on, the wife and nephew develop... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Wei, Zhang Yi, Zheng Jian
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06/24/06
Conduzido com segurança por Yimou (ainda em início de carreira), o filme atravessa décadas e conta com um visual rico para narrar uma forte e trágica história de amor.
03/28/06
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05/20/03
Top CriticFull of incestuous overtones and punctuated with deaths by fire and water, this gripping melodrama of lust and jealousy is far more Freudian than Marxist; it casts a sultry, James M. Cainish spell.
01/09/02
Ju Dou is an emotionally fulfilling and viscerally rewarding adult film.
01/01/00
This is a sumptuous, passionate and bleak look at sexuality and power in China.
01/01/00
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The film appealed to me for two reasons. First, because of its unabashed, lurid melodrama, in which the days are filled with scheming and the nights with passion and violence. Second, because of its visual beauty.
01/01/00
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