Director
Zhang Yimou, Fengliang Yang
Composer
Ru-jin Xia, Jiping Zhao
Cast
Gong Li, Wei Li, Baotian Li
Edition 1990
95'
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1990
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Drama, Romance
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Dialogue:
Mandarin
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. This tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.
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Credits
Directors
Zhang Yimou, Fengliang Yang
Composers
Ru-jin Xia, Jiping Zhao
Cast
Gong Li, Wei Li, Baotian Li
Scenario
Heng Liu
Director of Photography
Changwei Gu, Lun Yang
Editors
Yuan Du
Producers
Hu Jian, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Wenze Zhang
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Dialogue
Mandarin
Countries of production
China, Japan
Year
1990
Filmography
Zhang Yimou
Raise the Red Latern (1991), The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), Keep Cool (1997), Not One Less (1999), The Road Home (1999), Hero (2002), House of the Flying Daggers (2004), Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005), Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009), Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010), The Flowers of War (2011), Coming Home (2014), The Great Wall (2016), Shadow (2018), One Second (2020), a.o.