Ju Dou

Ju Dou

95 mins | Drama | April 21, 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.

Ju Dou

95 mins | Drama | April 21, 1990

Ju Dou
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers
Original title 菊豆
Directors Yang Fengliang, Zhang Yimou
Writers Liu Heng

Cast

Gong Li

as Ju Dou

Li Wei

as Yang Jinshan

Li Baotian

as Yang Tianqing

Niu Xingli

as Patriarch of the Yang Clan

Jia Zhaoji

as Er Laizi

Zhang Yi

as Young Tianbai

Ji-an Zheng

as Teenage Tianbai

Wu Fa

as

Jia Jin

as