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Ju Dou (1991)

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Reviews Counted:13

Fresh:13

Rotten:0

Average Rating:8.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

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... 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]

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

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

Director: Yang Fengliang, Yimou Zhang

Director: Yang Fengliang, Yimou Zhang

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Delirious melodrama, Chinese style.

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Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

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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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Ju Dou is an emotionally fulfilling and viscerally rewarding adult film.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

This is a sumptuous, passionate and bleak look at sexuality and power in China.

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Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

As sumptuously cinematic as it is woefully fatalistic.

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Rita Kempley
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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As well as having an eye for the dramatic - such as yards of cloth tumbling from a height or flames licking up a wall - Yimou also has a way of conveying the emotion of a scene with incredible brevity.

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06/13/08
Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film
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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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Caryn James
Caryn James
New York Times
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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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