Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou and Yan Fengliang, 1990)
Shot in a bright Technicolor in 1990. You read right, it was shot in this old process by Zhang Yimou and Yan Fengliang. It is the tragic story of the old man (Li Wei) who owns a cloth dyer place and has bought himself a wife called Ju Dou (Gong Li), well it’s his third, to get a pair of hands to work with him, a heir, and a sexual slave. His nephew (Li Baotian) is a good hearted forty years old man who works for him. It is pretty obvious that this story won’t end happily and that the title character and the nephew will get together in the back of the cruel uncle.
