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Ju Dou (1991)

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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 12  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.3/10

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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... 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 lustful feelings toward each other, and have an affair that results in a son. Later, Jin-Shan gets injured in an accident that leaves him confined to a wheelchair, and he must look on powerlessly as the couple carry on a sexual relationship in his presence. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Wei, Zhang Yi, Zheng Jian

Director: Yang Fengliang, Yimou Zhang

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Jan 17, 2006

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Michael Dequina
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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
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4/5

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.

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03/28/06
Pablo Villaca
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Carol Cling
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Jules Brenner
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05/23/03
Philip Martin
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05/20/03
Caryn James
New York Times
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Full 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.

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01/09/02
Movieline
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Ju Dou is an emotionally fulfilling and viscerally rewarding adult film.

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01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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This is a sumptuous, passionate and bleak look at sexuality and power in China.

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Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide
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Delirious melodrama, Chinese style.

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Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
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As sumptuously cinematic as it is woefully fatalistic.

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Rita Kempley
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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.

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