By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Fengliang Yang | Yimou Zhang
Starring: Baotian Li | Ji-an Zheng | Li Gong | Wei Li | Zhang Yi
Country: china, japan
Year: 1990
Running time: 95
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099902/reference
Bob says: “I watched JU DOU tonight. Did you know that it was made in Technicolor? In 1990? In China? So sayeth the Wiki, so it must be true. I do remember, when I first saw it in a theater, how saturated the colors of the dyed fabrics were.
“But the version that’s on Prime is transferred from a faded, scratched print, and it’s in 720p, so the colors don’t exactly pop. It’s still beautiful and brutal, but I guess not in the same way. Still…. Gong Li. Can’t complain about that.”
Ju Dou