33 years ago:
Ju Dou (CN,JP)
Original title: 菊豆
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 l...
1990-04-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/41821
#JuDou #ZhangYimou #GongLi #LiBaotian #DuYuan #WomenInFilm #Film

#WayneWang's love letter to Hong Kong coincides with its 1997 handover to China from the British rule. #JeremyIrons is a Brit journalist who never figured out the place where everyone speaks money. #GongLi is a business woman who can't get out of the shadows of her past & #MaggieCheung is a young woman, can't get over her first love. Thanks to Wang and Jean-Claude Carrière, they are not merely stand-ins for the dying empire, old generation bound by tradition & bitter new generation. #chinesebox

@reginasbread that's why...I might need to see a movie where she plays a - let's say - less dramatic role now 😁
I might had and forgotten... Though I'm not sure it exists actually.
Any suggestions?
#GongLi

I'm saying this with love, but is there a movie where Gong Li doesn't play the drama queen? 😅

I watched #MemoirsOfAGeisha
Great cast on display: #ZiyiZhang & #MichelleYeoh together again, and with #GongLi in the same frame... 🤯

I won't remember much else though

#cinema