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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.
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. With three wives already, each living in a separate house, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained.
May 4, 2023 · Fans of Zhang Yimou epic and sad love stories like Ju Dou cannot miss this fascinating romance drama movie, starring a gorgeous Gong Li. China in the 1920's. After her father's death, nineteen ...
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.
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.”
Oct 5, 2021 · 2021 Oct 5. China in the 1920's. 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...
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).
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Sep 10, 1991 · Movie: Raise the Red Lantern. Chinese: 大红灯笼高高挂 (Da hong deng long gao gao gua) Director: Zhang Yimou. Writer: Su Tong (novel), Ni Zhen. Producer: Hsiao-hsien Hou , Wenze Zhang, Fu-Sheng Chiu. Cinematographer: Fei Zhao. Original Music: Jiping Zhao. Release Date: September 10, 1991. Runtime: 125 min. Language: Mandarin. Country: China. Plot.
Mar 27, 1992 · So opens “Raise the Red Lantern,” a Chinese film of voluptuous physical beauty and angry passions. It is one of this year’s Academy Award nominees in the foreign film category, directed by Zhang Yimou, whose “Ju Dou” was nominated last year.
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.
Raise the Red Lantern (1991) PG | Drama, Romance. Official Trailer. 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.
Jun 29, 2019 · Raise the Red Lantern is the third film of Zhang’s ‘Red Trilogy’. The three films each star actress Gong Li and share common themes: forced marriage, oppression, rebellion crushed, self-destruction and authoritarianism.
Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Official Trailer
Dec 18, 1991 · Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on March 8, 2023. In 1920s China, nineteen-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
Jun 14, 2016 · Based off of Si Tong’s seditious 1990 novel Wives and Concubines and admirably adapted by Ni Zhen, Raise the Red Lantern tells the nostalgic and nagging story of Songlian (Gong, in what may be her greatest role), a shining student and merchant’s daughter in 1920s China whose married off as a concubine to a wealthy old man by her desperate stepmo...
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 of the 1990 novella Raise the Red Lantern by Su Tong. The film was later adapted into an acclaimed ballet of the same title by the National Ballet of China, also directed by Zhang.
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.
Details. 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.
Raise the Red Lantern a genuine masterpiece bears the fruit of the planet's last three-strip Technicolor lab, located in Shanghai, and you can't so much as glance at the screen without noticing the difference. Lanterns dangle from the eves of the buildings and burn with lavish brilliance.
Oct 28, 2004 · Zhang Yimou’s fourth film, Raise the Red Lantern, is the last of a trilogy (Red Sorghum [1987] and Judou [1990] are earlier instalments) that is deeply critical of Confucianism and Chinese culture.