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TitleJu Dou (1989)
Alternative/Original Title
DisabilityLimb
CountryChina/Japan
Length95
GenreHistorical
Rating4
DirectorZhang Yimou
CastGong Li Li Bao-Tian Li Wei
NotesA love story set in 1920s Feudal China. An old man buys a young bride who remains barren because of his infertility/impotence. Frustrated he beats her. She falls in love with a young relative of his who works for him. When she becomes pregnant the baby is presumed to be the old man's. But then the young man is paralyzed in an accident and unable to move or speak. The child grows up believing the old man to be his father A film beautiful to watch and always interesting, it was the first Chinese film to win a Best Foreign Film Academy Award nomination though banned in China.

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