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 Corporation Xi'an Film Studio

Gong Li

Ju Dou

Li Wei

Yang Jinshan

Li Baotian

Yang Tianqing

Niu Xingli

Patriarch of the Yang Clan

Jia Zhaoji

Er Laizi

Zhang Yi

Young Tianbai

Ji-an Zheng

Teenage Tianbai

Ma Chong

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