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Ju Dou

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Ju Dou (1991)

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Reviews Counted: 12

Fresh: 12

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 8.3/10

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 abusing Ju Dou, a young woman he purchased as a... 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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Jun 29, 1999

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DVD Features:

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  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33:1

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - Mandarin

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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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Caryn James
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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
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Ju Dou is an emotionally fulfilling and viscerally rewarding adult film.

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

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Dan Jardine
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Delirious melodrama, Chinese style.

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As sumptuously cinematic as it is woefully fatalistic.

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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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