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Raise the Red Lantern
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Cast
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Saifei He | ... |
Meishan (Third Wife)
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Cuifen Cao | ... |
Zhuoyan (Second Wife)
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Jingwu Ma | ... |
The Master
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Qi Zhao | ... |
Housekeeper
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Lin Kong | ... |
Yan'er
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Shuyuan Jin | ... |
Yuru (First Wife)
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Weimin Ding | ... | |
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Zhengyin Cao | ... |
Old servant
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Zhihgang Cui | ... |
Dr. Gao
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Chu Xiao | ... |
Feipu
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China in the 1920's. After her father's death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. The competition between the wives is tough, as their master's attention carries power, status and privilege. Each night Chen must decide with which wife to spend the night and a red lantern is lit in front of the house of his choice. And each wife schemes and plots to make sure it's hers. However, things get out of hand... Written by Mattias Pettersson <seaman@sbbs.se>
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China, 1920. One master, four wives.Genres:
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Language:
MandarinRelease Date:
20 December 1991 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Raise the Red Lantern See more »Box Office
Gross:
$2,603,061 (USA)Company Credits
Production Co:
ERA International, China Film Co-Production Corporation, Century Communications See more »
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1.85 : 1
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Banned in China for a short time in the early 1990s. See more »Quotes
The Third Concubine: Good or bad, it's all playacting. If you act well, you can fool other people; if you do it badly, you can only fool yourself, and when you can't even fool yourself, you just can fool the ghosts.See more »
"Raise the Red Lantern" is set at a Chinese baronial estate, the time, the 1920s. But, as the family-servant dynamics are placed on display, the viewer begins to feel it could be a thousand years earlier. The story is shown through the eyes of a young college-dropout played by Gong Li. Family misfortune has forced her into concubinage as the "fourth mistress" of the Chinese lord. A headstrong woman, her relationship with the lord's household, especially the other three mistresses, form the basis of the story. But it's telling is as important as the story itself. This is a beautiful, well-acted, well-directed movie. Slow-paced, it ingratiates itself with you, drawing you in deeper and deeper. I can't think of anything that warrants improvement. A masterpiece.