Sat Nov 7 · 2:00pm
Ju Dou (1990)
Ju Dou (1990), directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang, was the first Chinese film nominated for an Academy Award, and it made a star of Li Gong. In an early 20th-century dye mill, a deadly triangle forms between a sadistic, impotent patriarch, his adopted nephew and Ju Dou, the old man's indentured bride. On 35mm in the Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque's Nostalgia series, preceded by Jan Lenica's 1965 short A.