The miserly proprietor of a cloth dyeing factory buys his third wife. Ju Dou (Gong Li), to bear him the heir he craves. Cruelly beaten as penance for the old man's impotence the young woman turns to his nephew, Tian-Qing, for protection.

GENRE: Drama, Romance, Erotic
MPAA RATING: No Rating
RUN TIME: 1h 35m
RELEASE DATE: January 01, 1989
STARRING: Gong Li, Baotian Li, Li Wei, Zhang Yi, Ji-an Zheng
DIRECTOR(S): Yimou Zhang
PRODUCER(S): Hu Jian, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Wenze Zhang
WRITER(S): Lui Heng
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