Tianqing falls in love with Ju Dou, his uncle's wife who is tortured for being childless. However, after they have an affair, they discover that his uncle is impotent and try to conceal the truth.
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Gorgeously realized story of a young woman named Ju Dou, who is married off to an abusive and cruel old man who runs a dye mill in 1920s China. The old man’s nephew/assistant, Tianqing, falls in love with Ju Dou, and a story of deceit, revenge, and violent patriarchal society unfolds. If you’re familiar with the bleakness of Zhang Yimou’s early films, you’ll get a healthy dose of that in this one. Visually, the movie is a canvas of gorgeous colours and vivid recreations of rural Chinese life.
