Ju Dou

Ju Dou
Directed by
Based onFuxi Fuxi
by Liu Heng[3]
Produced by
  • Zhang Wenze
  • Yasuyoshi Tokuma
  • Hu Jian[2]
Starring
Edited byDu Yuan[1]
Music byZhao Jiping[1]
Production
companies
Distributed byDaiei (Japan)[1]
Running time
95 minutes[1]
Countries

Ju Dou (Chinese: 菊豆; pinyin: Jú Dòu) is a 1990 film directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang, starring Gong Li as the title character. The film, based on the novel Fuxi, Fuxi (伏羲伏羲) by Liu Heng,[3] is a tragedy that revolves around Ju Dou, a beautiful young woman sold as a wife to Jinshan, an elderly cloth dyer. The film was produced using the vivid Technicolor process, long after it had been abandoned in the United States.[4][5] It became the first Chinese film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[6][7]

Upon its release, Ju Dou faced a ban in China,[8] which was eventually lifted in July 1992.[9]

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  2. ^ a b Galbraith IV 1996, p. 238.
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  6. ^ Neo, David (September 2003). "Red Sorghum: A Search for Roots". Senses of Cinema. Archived from the original on 27 April 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2007.
  7. ^ "The 63rd Academy Awards (1991) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  8. ^ Zhang Yimou. Frances K. Gateward, Yimou Zhang, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2001, pp. 26–7.
  9. ^ Zhang Yimou. Frances K. Gateward, Yimou Zhang, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2001, p. 42.