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1h 35min
DIRECTOR(S)
Yimou Zhang
PRODUCER(S)
Hu Jian
Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Wenze Zhang
WRITER(S)
Lui Heng
CAST
Gong Li
Baotian Li
Li Wei
Zhang Yi
Ji-an Zheng
Ma Chong
Zhijun Cong
Wu Fa
Zhaoji Jia
Jia Jin
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.
