- HD 1080
- Runtime: 95m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: zh
- Country: China, Japan
- Director: Zhang Yimou
- Stars: Gong Li, Li Wei, Li Baotian, Niu Xingli, Jia Zhaoji
- keywords: adultery, drowning, sadism, murder, accidental death, modern china, technicolor, abuse, spouse abuse, illicit love, patricide
- Production_studio: China Film Co-Production Corp., Xi'an Film Studio
- Slogan: An Erotic Tale of Forbidden Passion.
- The Ju Dou is featured in the top rankings of 1990
- #28 in Top Drama Movies of 1990
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.