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Raise the Red Lantern

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Raise the Red Lantern
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PG,2hrs 5min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1991
Director:
Zhang Yimou
Distributor:
Razor Digital Entertainment
Starring:
Gong Li, He Caifei, Ma Jingwu  ...more
Synopsis: The phenomenal success and international acclaim of Raise the Red Lantern, cemented Zhang Yimou's status as a leading figure in world cinema and reaffirmed the vibrancy of Chinese cinema. Though the film was the topic of great political controversy in China upon its release, it received armfuls of awards from Belgium, Italy, the United Kingdom and a nomination for an Academy Award.

This sumptuously photographed drama, set in Northern China in the 1920s and based on the novel Wives and Concubines

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Jonathan Crow, AMG Review
Visually astonishing and dramatically devastating, Raise the Red Lantern is both the most finely realized film of director Zhang Yimou's celebrated career and one of the landmark films of the 1990s. Like Zhang's previous Ju Dou (1990), Lantern is a damning portrait of women at the mercy of a rigid patriarchal power structure. Zhang's voluptuous visual style accentuates Songlian's plight, as the film's ... Full Review
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Gong Li
Songlian
He Caifei
Meishan
Ma Jingwu
Chen Zuoqian
Cao Cuifeng
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