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Raise the Red Lantern: Directed by Yimou Zhang. With Gong Li, Saifei He, Jingwu Ma, Cuifen Cao. China in the 1920s. After her father's death, Songlian is forced to marry the wealthy Master Chen.
- (36K)
- Drama, Romance
- Yimou Zhang
- 1991-12-18
Raise the Red Lantern is a 1991 Chinese period drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li. It is an adaptation by Ni Zhen [zh] of the 1990 novella Raise the Red Lantern (originally Wives and Concubines) by Su Tong.
Apr 27, 2003 · The Chinese film “Raise the Red Lantern” (1991), like the Japanese film “Woman in the Dunes” (1960), is about sexual enslavement. In both films, the protagonist enters a closed system from which there is no escape, and life is ruled by long-established “customs.”
Teenage Songlian (Gong Li), whose family has been devastated by the recent death of her father, becomes the third concubine of wealthy Master Chen (Ma Jingwu).
- (29)
- Yimou Zhang
- PG
- Gong Li
A film set in 1920s China about a young woman who marries into a wealthy family with three other concubines and competes for her husband's attention. She faces betrayal, jealousy, and tragedy in a patriarchal society where women are treated as objects.
Mar 27, 1992 · A Chinese film about the life of a young concubine in a wealthy household, directed by Zhang Yimou. Roger Ebert praises the film's visual beauty, melodrama and social critique, and compares it to his previous works.
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Raise the Red Lantern. A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household. 759 IMDb 8.1 1 h 59 min 1990. 13+.
