Raise the Red Lantern
China, 1920. One Master, Four Wives.
7.9 / 10
125 minutes
1991-12-18
Mandarin
CN
Actors :
Gong Li, Ma Jingwu, He Saifei, Cao Cuifen, Kong Lin, Shuyuan Jin, Chu Xiao, Ding Weimin, Cao Zengyin, Cui Zhigang, Zhou Qi
Description
In 1920s China, nineteen-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
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Reviews
Filipe Manuel Neto
3/8/2023, 9:35:20 PM
**In the context of oriental cinema, it's a good film... but it's very different from the cinema that we, in the West, are used to, and this difference ends up killing our interest in this work.** I think this movie was the first Chinese movie I saw, I'm not really sure. I am not an expert on the cinema of this country, but I can say that it is one of those films that you see without much speci...