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  1. Gong Li
    Chinese-Singaporean actress

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  1. In rural China, the young bride of a tyrannical owner of a silk-dyeing business finds temporary solace in the arms of her husband's nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant. Director Yimou Zhang Fengliang Yang Stars Gong Li Wei Li Baotian Li. 3.

  2. 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
  3. Coming Home: Directed by Yimou Zhang. With Gong Li, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang, Tao Guo. Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution.

    • (6.8K)
    • Drama, Romance
    • Yimou Zhang
    • 2014-05-16
    • The Story of Qiu Ju
    • Ju Dou
    • Red Sorghum
    • Raise The Red Lantern
    • To Live

    Gong plays rural woman Qiu Ju, whose husband suffers a groin injury in a dispute with a village chief. He refuses to apologise. Despite being pregnant, Qiu ventures to the city to lodge a complaint with the municipal authorities. The village chief is eventually imprisoned for 15 days. The film shows the dogged simplicity of ordinary people and the ...

    The first Chinese production to be nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign language film, Ju Douis a romantic tragedy that offers a lacerating critique of China’s patriarchy and the feudal values of the early 20th century. Gong plays the young and beautiful bride of the cantankerous and sadistic owner of a dyeing works in rural China. Her i...

    Adapted from a novel of the same name by Nobel-winning writer Mo Yan, Red Sorghummarked the feature film debuts of both Zhang and Gong. Set in a sorghum liquor distillery during the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s, the film shows humanity at its most extreme, featuring rape, massacres, and the Japanese aggressors ordering that a man be skin...

    The second Chinese film to be nominated for an Academy Award, and winner of the British Academy of Film and Television’s award for best foreign language film, Raise the Red Lanternportrays the evils of China’s former patriarchal society, in which women were nothing more than men’s playthings. Gong plays Song Lian, the beautiful fourth concubine of ...

    Adapted from a novel of the same name by Yu Hua, To Livedepicts scenes from the life of a couple, played by Gong and Ge You. Set in the decades from the 1940s to the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, the film reflects the many tragedies of contemporary Chinese history, including the Great Leap Forward and the abolition of private property. Because ...

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  4. 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.

  5. Feb 15, 2017 · Gong Li continued to serve as Zhang’s muse with Raise the Red Lantern, another period drama — set in the China of the 1920s — that used entrenched social and gender dynamics to fuel a...

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  7. Sep 8, 2015 · Amid the Cultural Revolution, a father is imprisoned, his teenage daughter denounces him, and a family tries to recover from that pain in this film by Zhang Yimou.

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