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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
After her father's death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle.
Mar 27, 1992 · Raise The Red Lantern. Drama. 126 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1992. Roger Ebert. March 27, 1992. 4 min read. The fourth wife of the rich old man comes to live in his house against her will. She has been educated, and thinks herself ready for the wider world, but her mother betrays her, selling her as a concubine, and soon her world is no larger than the ...
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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+.
