Ju Dou

“An Erotic Tale of Forbidden Passion.”

Ju Dou (Gong Li) wants a child, and in the house where she has been sold as a wife, that is the one thing she is beaten for not having. Her husband is Yang Jinshan (Li Wei), an elderly cloth dyer, and his nephew Tianqing (Li Baotian) lives and works under the same roof. Zhang Yimou lets the two of them come together in secret, with the old man always somewhere in the house.