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Raise the Red Lantern
大红灯笼高高挂
1991 · Film · 125 min
Directed by Zhang Yimou
In 1920s China, 19-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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China's movies have peaked in the 90s. Take a director like Zhang Yimou, he hasn't made any decent movies in the las 15 years because of state censorship. None of his best movies could be directed today: To live, Ju Dou, The Story of Qiu Ju or Raise the Red Lantern. The same with Chen Kaige or any of the great directors in Mainland China. Even a relatively recent movie like Beijing bicycle would not be possible today.
Even if a lot of those movies were banned in China on release, there were much less consequences for a director of a banned movie than nowadays.