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TITLE Ju Dou (1989)

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DISABILITY Limb

COUNTRY China/Japan

LENGTH 95

GENRE Historical

DIRECTOR Zhang Yimou

CAST Gong Li

Li Bao-Tian

Li Wei

NOTES A love story set in 1920s Feudal China. An old man buys a

young bride who remains barren because of his

infertility/impotence. Frustrated he beats her. She falls in love

with a young relative of his who works for him. When she

becomes pregnant the baby is presumed to be the old man's.

But then the young man is paralyzed in an accident and

unable to move or speak. The child grows up believing the old man to be his father

A film beautiful to watch and always interesting, it was the first

Chinese film to win a Best Foreign Film Academy Award

nomination though banned in China.

 


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