RAISE THE RED LANTERN | Full ROMANCE DRAMA Movie HD | Zhang Yimou | Gong Li

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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...
    Raise The Red Lantern (1991)
    Genres: Romance, Drama, History
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  • @FFFPlus
    @FFFPlus  2 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    Enjoy this free movie, it was Oscar nominated! Show some love by either liking or disliking the video, don't forget to subscribe for more licensed movies!

    • @liamdunne3344
      @liamdunne3344 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      will you be uploading any other zhang yimou movies? i have been looking for things like 'to live' but cant find it anywhere. also stuff like the blue kite? anyway thanks for this i love the film

    • @GESUNDHEITINSTITUTE2
      @GESUNDHEITINSTITUTE2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *Far too few ads..!* ...too loud and too fast action, it's impossible to watch..!!!

    • @nayrakhan154
      @nayrakhan154 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please dubbed this movie in hindi

    • @gabbro72
      @gabbro72 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The oscar was given to Mediterraneo that year. Raise the Red Lantern would have deserved it better.

    • @LawnBunny777
      @LawnBunny777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you! Liked and subbed! Thanks for the upload, one of my favorite movies ever.

  • @richardong6640
    @richardong6640 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    Zhang Yimou is a great story teller! Notice he never showed the face of the husband/master in the entire film! Definitely one of his best works ever!

  • @margueritepaizis3607
    @margueritepaizis3607 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    This beautifully filmed but tragic story profoundly impressed me so many years ago when I first saw it. I hope others will appreciate it as much as I did. It gives us a tiny peek into the old customs that weighed so heavily upon women, and which, tragically, continue to do so even these days in certain unenlightened regions where women are less valued than livestock.

  • @henridelagardere264
    @henridelagardere264 2 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    Thirty years ago, this film was our introduction to Zhang Yimou and Li Gong. It became an instant classic,. Went to check out the director's rich œuvre, touching stories with indelible images, but _Raise the Red Lantern_ is still their best collaborative effort, an unforgettable masterpiece. Thank you for sharing this in such high quality!
    P. S. Zhang Yimou's 70th birthday is up on Sunday, Nov 14th.

    • @mynty_me
      @mynty_me ปีที่แล้ว

      Almost a year now:)

    • @thuandao4243
      @thuandao4243 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Love these Chinese era movies , dynasties time historical …..interesting custom , especially beautiful embroidery costumes, hair ornaments.

  • @AlmostCouture
    @AlmostCouture ปีที่แล้ว +105

    I remember I was sick and stayed home from school in 1993 and I watched this movie on HBO. even as a child I was like wow this was a great movie! It has stayed with me for almost 30 years! What great story telling and beautifully filmed! Thank you for posting it ❤

  • @johnsarkissian5519
    @johnsarkissian5519 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I saw this movie when it first came out! I think it was the early 90s. Since then, I’ve seen it 3 times in movie theatres, and watched it at least twice online with friends. I can simply watch it again and again. 30 years ago, I didn’t know a single word of Chinese and never imagined I’d ever learn Chinese. Now, I’m at lower intermediate level, nowhere enough to fully understand the dialogues in the movie. But now I find the whole movie even more intriguing to watch because I can appreciate the acting and delivery even more! I can say confidently that this is one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces ever made.

  • @lemonhead162
    @lemonhead162 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I remember my sister & I rented this movie one night years & years ago and itbwas one of those cozy stay in cooking & watching foreign film nights! This movie stood out in my memory! Gong Li was/is just a magnificent looking woman and so talented as an actress.

  • @philip_hees
    @philip_hees 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    That moment at @56:52 when she meets the Master's young handsome son. Who, in a fair world, she would be with. Wow.

    • @philip_hees
      @philip_hees 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      And that moment at @57:53 when they both turn and look back at each other 😮

    • @cosmari245
      @cosmari245 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@philip_hees In the novel it was shown more how they both had feelings for each other

    • @soosenn_suzanne
      @soosenn_suzanne 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      58:09 The way she just stood there is just so sad.

    • @DellaStreet123
      @DellaStreet123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@cosmari245 And he's in a relationship with his flute teacher -- the book's narrative still suggests that Feipu is not gay but simply afraid of women. One might wonder if the Cultural Revolution had not put an end to such tribal anarchy, Feipu would have ended up like his father, or if he would have changed some things.

    • @emiliasidorow1535
      @emiliasidorow1535 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The master's son is Songlian's age.

  • @angelcitygirl
    @angelcitygirl 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    A masterpiece. The first Chinese film I ever saw. I fell in love with Gong Li, all things Chinese and learned that happy endings are not very realistic.

  • @sonnycorleone3251
    @sonnycorleone3251 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I saw this movie "Raise the Red lantern" with Gong Li and others years ago . A very good, well-acted movie. I always loved Gong Li and this performance was Oscar worthy from her I thought. Thanks for the upload.

  • @MishMashTravels
    @MishMashTravels 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    One of my most favorite and treasured films. Criterion needs to do a release!

  • @emmabennett7699
    @emmabennett7699 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    1:53:40 when she screams murderers is one of the most poweful moment in the film. The pain and horror in her voice. The understanding thay such an agreggious wrong has been done to a fellow woman. I have thought about this for months since I first saw this film.

    • @grammarx
      @grammarx 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      The Master moves from mistress to mistress every night. Meanwhile, a woman does the same and gets killed for it.

    • @DellaStreet123
      @DellaStreet123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@grammarx I think the main reason women caught in adultery were almost always more severely punished than men who were caught engaging in forbidden sexual behavior is that men were terrified of the idea that they might end up raising another man's child as their own. -- What is interesting is that, technically, during the time the movie is set (Warlord Era), polygamy was no longer legally recognized. It was not illegal to keep concubines, though, and men like Chen simply kept a harem of concubines instead to carry on the family tradition. This means that Yan'er's dream world in which she was one of Chen's wives wasn't that different from his own distortion of reality at all.

    • @emiliasidorow1535
      @emiliasidorow1535 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Whatever happened to the 3rd mistress's son?

    • @DellaStreet123
      @DellaStreet123 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@emiliasidorow1535 Unless the master had reason to believe that it wasn't his, he'd probably be taken away to be raised by distant relatives and kept as a "spare". I think that's what would have happened because it is hinted that the affair between Meishan and Dr. Gao was a recent development and that Meishan got pregnant soon after her marriage to the master.

  • @Nettsinthewoods
    @Nettsinthewoods ปีที่แล้ว +18

    What a masterpiece! From the first time I saw this film, I’ve longed to see it time and again and every time I see it, I’m again spellbound.

  • @martinemjt
    @martinemjt ปีที่แล้ว +13

    if you play well, you can fool others, if you play bad you only fool yourself!

  • @jeanwilliquet4035
    @jeanwilliquet4035 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Harrowing. Thanks God Chinese women have been free since 1949. Thank you for posting this masterwork.

  • @janedoe5229
    @janedoe5229 ปีที่แล้ว +209

    Spoilers. A profound and thought-provoking movie. The first wife must have been his young bride when he was a young man. They must have been so in love when they were young together. Now she is old and he never comes to see her. She bore him a son, and she has her own separate life. She makes the most of a bad situation. The second one, younger, and apparently so cute: a "face like a Buddha". She was smiling, happy laughing, and younger. Who can compete with that? And she became the new queen of the house. Then came wife #3. Buy the time he married her, he had enough money to afford an actress, a celebrity. More than pretty, she was younger still, glamorous, cultured, talented. She had beautiful clothes and beautiful make-up. She could sing and dance. #1 and #2 could not compete with that. But then he eventually got tired of her too. He wanted something else "new and different", so he got our heroine: #4, who was young and educated. #1, #2, and #3 could not compete with new youth and education. The plain maid-servant: hoping one day that the master would "love" her, or at least elevate her out of being a servant. But why should he marry her when he can just HAVE her. He technically already owns here. When she was taken away, he said, "make sure she gets the best care. We don't want people thinking that we don't take care of our servants". He did not care one iota about her life. He only cared about what people thought of him. When number #3 cheated, here was the chance for #2 to get revenge for being replaced. She knew who held the power and ran to #1, who was happy to have one of these competitors killed. At the end, they bring in child: #5, into this deadly snake pit. She has no idea how much she is hated, and how powerful and deadly these sweet-smiling women can be. It's a beautiful film, but also terrifying. This man who they all vied for, he was a cruel, heartless monster.

    • @maximhornby5493
      @maximhornby5493 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      He wasn't even a man. The most we got of his face was a glimpse of his moustache and that was it.

    • @maily8388
      @maily8388 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s very common with anyone who had power Easterners or Westerners, old or modern society. Many Chinese emperors had many wives and concubines like 3,000 of them, some women had never been touched by them. And the women plotted against each other to have the man, they ended up killed each other, they even killed their own kids then blamed others. How brutal their secret society?. Western society, there’s king Henry the eighth of England who had many wives then executed them.

    • @ranchuchip
      @ranchuchip ปีที่แล้ว +23

      First wife’s status and authority in the family are secured by her son, the only heir to the family fortune/estate. Therefore, first wife is the spectator of the power struggle and schemes among the concubines.

    • @pensripippy3976
      @pensripippy3976 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Whole heartedly agree

    • @seppo532
      @seppo532 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@AnnaLuchia crab bucket mentality

  • @Kateyangyuqing
    @Kateyangyuqing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    Brilliant movie, it's a masterpiece. I remember we watched it in Chinese class in high school about 20 years ago and didn't care much for it at the time (I didn't like school in general) but seeing it from a different perspective now, I can appreciate it so much more. Now that I have a) grown up; b) learned Chinese for the last five years and able to understand most of the movie now regardless of subtitles; c) fallen in love with China since learning Chinese and going to China; d) watched many Chinese movies and series and understand the cultural and historical context better - it's made a big difference compared to being an immature 14 year old.

    • @user-gw8cn9xe8p
      @user-gw8cn9xe8p 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      厉害

    • @sangeetaroy9928
      @sangeetaroy9928 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I watched it in an Indian classroom for gender studies course . It's a Brilliant film .

    • @kellymitchell3138
      @kellymitchell3138 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Watched a number of times, glad I was able to find it again, so thank you for posting! Diverse, intelligent women living cloistered, ridgid lives, pitted against each other. Beautifully filmed, superbly acted!

    • @amogussy_did_9.11
      @amogussy_did_9.11 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sangeetaroy9928 what kind of sick mind would devote its time to something this dumb lmafo "gender studies" try to find a job now ahah

    • @gordonliu3972
      @gordonliu3972 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Still in China?

  • @robsemail
    @robsemail 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Wow! I had no idea this movie was available on youtube. I absolutely LOVE this pic. I saw it more than 20 years ago, maybe 25, at an art-house cinema. One thing I remember is that the film prints were produced using the Technicolor imbibition method. When Technicolor dismantled their main production facility in the US in the 1970s, a Chinese firm bought the imbibition equipment, and I believe this and ‘Ju Dou’ were among the earliest Chinese pictures to be made in Technicolor (but no longer called Technicolor).
    The movie itself is one of the best I saw in the 90s. I was blown away! The story is so compelling I thought surely an American TV mini-series would be made from it, but so far I don’t guess that has happened.

    • @tonirose6776
      @tonirose6776 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you! I was trying to recall about 5 Chinese movies I saw around the time of Red Lantern. Ju Dou was one of them! Yellow Earth another. It's great that they're being uploaded. Such excellent films.

    • @robsemail
      @robsemail ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tonirose6776 you might also be trying to remember ‘Red Sorghum’, which was the directorial debut of Zhang Yimou and acting debut of Gong Li. It’s a superb picture. But I think that of all the films Yimou and Li made together, ‘Ju Dou’ is my favorite.
      I think Zhang Yimou might have studied intently the films of Alfred Hitchcock, as Yimou’s method of using imagery and color to further the story seems very similar.

  • @Bloombaby99
    @Bloombaby99 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Her father allowed her to be educated even though it was only meant for boys to be educated during those times and because he has died, his new wife states they cannot provide her the money to keep going to school so she must wed and become a concubine to a man whose only interests are self serving and male centered: even his sons, fond as he is of them, bend to his will. The happy wedding music that plays betrays the tears she shed over not choosing her own fate.

  • @metellojacob
    @metellojacob ปีที่แล้ว +16

    A true masterpiece, all human feelings are depicted there, thanks for uploading.

  • @Davilla888
    @Davilla888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This is one of the best films I have ever seen!

  • @Imalrightma
    @Imalrightma ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Terrific but ultimately tragic tale of mischievous mistresses stuck in a compound of doom. Beautifully shot, directed, performed and scripted. I was not familiar with Zhang's earlier work having come to him when Hero and House...came out but thought i would check this out. I'm glad i did. Thank you for sharing it.

  • @andre_bemol
    @andre_bemol ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I watched this movie years ago, when I was 20. Finding this today is so touching for me because I had the opportunity to travel around Asia and todoy this is even more meaningful to me. Beauty made into a movie!!

  • @user-id4nk3ix9y
    @user-id4nk3ix9y ปีที่แล้ว +7

    何賽飛は越劇(伝統的な地方劇)の有名な女優さん。
    ラジオやレコードでよく唄を聴きました。
    声に負けないくらい綺麗な人で驚いた覚えが。
    コン・リーが山口百恵っぽくてとても好きだった。
    upありがとう👍
    なんとも迫力のある映画で何度も観たなあ。

  • @LeonBerrange
    @LeonBerrange ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I saw this at the Johannesburg Film Festival when it first released. I have always remembered it, and a yt history short about Chinese emperors and their wives and concubines brought it to mind. A quick search and I was thrilled to find it... and stayed up much too late to watch this tour de force of cinema. A masterpiece in so many ways. Thank you for sharing it here.

  • @richc47us
    @richc47us ปีที่แล้ว +14

    One of the best by zhang Yimou as director...Gong Li at her best...Historically, this is deep in China culture

  • @elizabethrose92
    @elizabethrose92 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Notice Songlian is dressed like a schoolgirl again at the end. Poor thing.

    • @thecajunphoenix
      @thecajunphoenix 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Those were Songlian's clothes she wore when she was still a university student.
      Because she tried to fake a pregnancy, her husband no longer chooses to spend the night with her, and being ostracized and ignored is all too often a fate worse than death.

  • @theresa42213
    @theresa42213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    l will never forget this movie. The actress was also in 'Memoirs of a Geisha.'

    • @emiliasidorow1535
      @emiliasidorow1535 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Gong Li😊 is very talented. Like in Memoirs of a Geisha, Gong Li can withhold her tears and hold them. Quite extraordinary.

  • @wesleysyphus5211
    @wesleysyphus5211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This film remains one of my international faves. I have now seen it like 3 times because of school lol.

  • @thesacredmom2784
    @thesacredmom2784 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This movie while sad was a great movie, it has subtitles which I'm cool with. It reminded me of the book by Pearl S. Buck called The Good Earth, a classic great book, but historically also just as informative.

  • @taniaferjones706
    @taniaferjones706 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I love the third mistress she kept it real till her fate got her caught up

    • @andrewcolinwilson1
      @andrewcolinwilson1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah because she cheated on the Master with Dr. Gao.

    • @emiliasidorow1535
      @emiliasidorow1535 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I love the dinner table part, when 3rd mistress orders pork steamed leaves.

  • @followtheflow1083
    @followtheflow1083 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The Best of Yimou Zhang's movie! Thank you for posting it, and I enjoyed it very much 😀 Everyone was matching their own character 👍

  • @paecpc
    @paecpc ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Watching it again now in my 50s, I understood more nuances, thanks for uploading.

    • @DellaStreet123
      @DellaStreet123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was Songlian's age when I watched it for the first time, now I'm Zhuoyun's age, and it definitely feels different. While Zhuoyun is a despicable character, I still think young woman have no clue how it feels when your fertility is being phased out.

  • @keithlim1075
    @keithlim1075 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We are very fortunate to watch this Oscar nominated Zhang Yimou’film . We learn about old China family history where successful men can have as any wives as thy wishes to be his era of Modern world still exist …Drama started in the last 10 mins ending whereby she were told story of death’s house stood still meaning things can happened with secret from her outside. What happened in the master house stay within the house. Chilling study of mistreatment and manslaughter’s of infidelity do occurred, imagine the master’s calling every evening #2, #3 & #4 respectively by raising the Lanterns also known as the “ RED LIGHT SYNDROME “🎉😂❤ Awesome Zhang & Talented Gong Li. ( my idol )

  • @josephineg.matthews7653
    @josephineg.matthews7653 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Watched this long time ago and have a feeling of deja vu and now I watch it again and still I have the same feeling....this is one brilliant movie 😻😍

  • @makizawa_fuming
    @makizawa_fuming 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    やはり 名作だ。
    誰ひとりと幸せになれず、負の連鎖が続く。
    悲しすぎる😢😢😢

  • @vintageb8
    @vintageb8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    To me the scene and the music at 56:10 is the most memorable , it reminded me of my time in China

  • @PiperPurdon
    @PiperPurdon ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Gong Li what a magnificent actor! Impressive classic movie depicting a cultural peek into Eastern polygamy and it’s horrific subjugation belief system that diminished women to commodity without compunction. Such patriarchy rooted in ubiquitous abuse of other human beings. It’s a shameful history

  • @donjames7647
    @donjames7647 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Please upload more Gong Li movies
    I am a big fan
    thank you for this movie

  • @maraeacookson1573
    @maraeacookson1573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Enjoyed the movie, I wasn't expecting the ending to be as such. Thank you for sharing from Aotearoa [NZ]

  • @stellajohnson5301
    @stellajohnson5301 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So surprised to see this here. It has always been one of my favorite movies, foreign or not.

  • @chickwithaguitar6876
    @chickwithaguitar6876 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Such a deep message.
    To be smart and call out the evil or just keep head down and follow the sheeps and accept the faith...

    • @rileycoyote8275
      @rileycoyote8275 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Accept their fate or their faiths?

  • @Tia-Marie
    @Tia-Marie ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have loved this movie since I saw it in HS in the late 90's. I read the short story book which inspired it and absolutely adore the soundtrack!
    THANK YOU FOR THE UPLOAD

  • @stellajohnson5301
    @stellajohnson5301 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This has always been one of my favorite movies, foreign or not. Thanks so much. S

  • @suzietjahajastaal5521
    @suzietjahajastaal5521 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I enjoyed so much this movie. Gong Li is my favorite Chinese actress. Zhang Yi Mao is a great story teller. Oscar nominated. 👍👍👍❤❤❤

  • @user-by6xm9ew8o
    @user-by6xm9ew8o 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Nice movie,but very sad
    Thank you for charing

  • @brettmuir5679
    @brettmuir5679 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Saw this on the big screen in all its' technicolor glory. I love this movie even when/if it's on TH-cam
    I read every comment. It is heartening to see so many others also love this motion picture too. It takes a REAL movie lover to love this movie.
    Anybody got a hint on why you hardly ever see the sky and the horizon only once? (That is a rhetorical question only) food for thought

  • @pmazinga6643
    @pmazinga6643 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Gong LI has always been one of my favorite actress ever since I first saw her in Farewell My Concubine, Red Sorghum, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and the Curse of the Golden Chrysanthemum to name a few.

    • @davec8836
      @davec8836 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Elle n’a jamais joué dans tigre et dragons

  • @YingofDarkness
    @YingofDarkness ปีที่แล้ว +16

    A beautifully tragic tale or what being a concubine truly meant

  • @CulturalDoldrums
    @CulturalDoldrums 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    One of my all-time favorites. Thank you!

  • @helenanovak725
    @helenanovak725 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you for posting this movie, directed by the genius film maker Zhang Yimou. I love his films and have seen quite a few of them.

  • @melissajane7785
    @melissajane7785 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well made movie, grim life for women in that period, I can appreciate its qaulity and performance, l will have moral nightmares for week now

  • @zenaidadelmendo7093
    @zenaidadelmendo7093 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I watched this movie many years ago and no wonder it was nominated in the Oscar. With this movie I learned a little bit culture of the chinese.

  • @Stogdad1
    @Stogdad1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One of the best films of the 1990s.

  • @tuesdae666
    @tuesdae666 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I first watched this maybe 15 years ago while lying in bed in a resort in Bali. I had heard of it but never watched it. Fell in love and had to watch it to the end.

  • @ulenmichael4563
    @ulenmichael4563 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    As a female. This film have given me some thought.

  • @Emilee-vy4xl
    @Emilee-vy4xl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That was absolutely insane start to finish. Great film, but oh my god.

    • @user-jo6yy5lf4l
      @user-jo6yy5lf4l 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes it is insane These poor ladies especially meishan and Songlian are objects of jealousy and hatred all that for a selfish man who doesnt care about them or just to satisfy his needs and have a son pff .How sad ! What a life. Better be dead than live like that..its not a happy life even in a golden palace with advantages..Fascinating movie though but the end is creepy..

    • @DellaStreet123
      @DellaStreet123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-jo6yy5lf4l It is insane...and yet Master Chen may have seen himself as a benefactor to those women. Life during the Warlord Era was rough and girls and women were regularly kidnapped, raped and sold into brothels. He probably thought that he was providing these women with a safe haven and a good life as long as they stuck by the rules. His rules, of course. He is completely oblivious when it comes to the fact that women have social needs, too. Why can't she stay in her own house, he wonders when he learns that Songlian is in Meishan's house, playing mahjong. How would he feel if someone expected him stay in the same one-bedroom house 24/7?

  • @plumeria66
    @plumeria66 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Everyone watching these old movies on TH-cam have all seen them decades before. Young people don’t seem to even know these exist.

  • @melanyblake1470
    @melanyblake1470 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I watched it for my essay and composition class at the university 30 years ago in Texas. Introduced me to so much although, there were no subtitles.

  • @superluigi8705
    @superluigi8705 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Love this movie 😍

  • @clover_000
    @clover_000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I sincerely love you for providing all these amazing films from the East 💕❤

  • @lisbethlarsen6427
    @lisbethlarsen6427 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The most beautiful film I have ever seen. Lives on in memory, too!

  • @errrno1761
    @errrno1761 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    พึ่งรู้ว่าดอกส้มสีทองมีที่มาจากเรื่องนี้ เป็นหนังที่สวยงามมาก ภาพสวย ดนตรีงาม แสดงเยี่ยม เรียบง่าย แต่ดูแพง

  • @SusanZuzzman
    @SusanZuzzman ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for making this available for everyone!

  • @helyxhelyx
    @helyxhelyx ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for providing the highest quality of International Cinema.

  • @sheilamcclane6452
    @sheilamcclane6452 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you for this movie. It's fantastic. I love Chinese movies. Thank you for the English subs.✌❤

  • @alexam1848
    @alexam1848 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of the best films ever!Thank you!

  • @pmazinga9446
    @pmazinga9446 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Gong Li is one of my favorite Chinese actresses. We were all concerned when for several month she was missing in action.

    • @andrewcolinwilson1
      @andrewcolinwilson1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Two of my favorite films of hers is Memoirs of a Geisha where she plays a Japanese character named Hatsumomo and the live action remake of Disney's Mulan where she plays a witch who knows Mulan is pretending to be a man and joining the army and she also plays a Japanese character named Lady Murasaki in Hannibal Rising which I haven't seen.

  • @damarisalicia6675
    @damarisalicia6675 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I injoy the movie.just that my heart hurt she didnt fine happiness and didnt have a child he never went back to her😢😭

  • @richardkoh2423
    @richardkoh2423 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent movie. So many memorable lines. Thank you for sharing.

  • @mini-mum253
    @mini-mum253 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This movie is in my top 5 , thank you for uploading!

  • @user-xi1mn4yv5q
    @user-xi1mn4yv5q ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful Sad and Well Made movie
    Still ..whole systems and societies are same as this house

  • @wongwah100
    @wongwah100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for sharing this fantastic movie, one of the best!!!

  • @to6941
    @to6941 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can’t watch this with so many adverts and also a constant adverts showing at the base cutting into the the movie frame. Better to buy the dvd.

  • @user-vw9gy4ze5l
    @user-vw9gy4ze5l หลายเดือนก่อน

    Saw this on HBO. It has always stuck in my mind. Thank you.

  • @Zahra-wd3md
    @Zahra-wd3md ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Really like this movie, had already seen it. This movie, "Memoirs of a Geisha" and the movie "To live" are my favorite Chinese movies.

    • @syz2868
      @syz2868 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Memoirs of a geisha is a Hollywood film, and geisha is a Japanese thing.

    • @Zahra-wd3md
      @Zahra-wd3md ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@syz2868 Yes I know it's Japanese. But didn't know it was made in Hollywood. Thanks for correcting, anyway. Should have wrote, my favorite Japanese and Chinese movies.

  • @Iam-me
    @Iam-me 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The servant who blow the red lantern off , has healthy lung…so strong 😀

  • @Iam-me
    @Iam-me 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The forth wife since begining had pig head already…strong heart

  • @ThePecunious
    @ThePecunious ปีที่แล้ว +45

    How depressing. So glad most women in the West can escape such a fate. I just found out my own Chinese grandmother opened a school for young girls before she got married. Then her family arranged a marriage for her, and she gave up her career. Luckily, she encouraged her daughters to go to school and did not allow their feet to be bound. That was not too long ago, just two generations...! I thank God everyday.

    • @paecpc
      @paecpc ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Come on, it’s just a movie, hilarious!!

    • @ThePecunious
      @ThePecunious ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@paecpc Chinese women couldn't go to school and baby girls were killed because they were not boys. This happened just a few generations ago. That's probably why Chinese people could relate to this movie. It is not for fun or for Westerners to make fun of.

    • @Bloombaby99
      @Bloombaby99 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@ThePecunious Thank you. There's nothing funny about this movie or her comment (the OP).

    • @mssydneil
      @mssydneil 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s wonderful. I have a Chinese surname from my father’s side of the family. My surname is either Chinese or German and I don’t have any confirmed German ancestry in me. Having Chinese lineage is awesome since its history goes back over 5 millennia plus my friend is Chinese with Hunanese ethnicity living in Changde. I love Chinese food culture and its history. Which province do your people come from?

    • @emmabennett7699
      @emmabennett7699 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@paecpcmovies are meant to be dissected

  • @vtorresd75
    @vtorresd75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I enjoyed watching this movie! I feel sorry and mad for fourth miss.

  • @szemingwu1980
    @szemingwu1980 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is the best scene and scream where it doesn’t rely on scared shock & violent value to know that there is something disturbing. The viewer knows it 1:53:00

  • @yvonnefernando6504
    @yvonnefernando6504 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for sharing this movie,Looking forward .

  • @meilinyuen7063
    @meilinyuen7063 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Absolutely brillian, thank you.

  • @jcwt_pdx
    @jcwt_pdx ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I saw this movie before. It is beautiful, but tragic 😍💔

  • @MariaAlvarez-sm8bv
    @MariaAlvarez-sm8bv ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a masterpiece in every aspect!

  • @eclosion6940
    @eclosion6940 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oscarized movie, will never forget it. Thanks.

  • @angelanoriega6786
    @angelanoriega6786 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I first watched this movie in my China of the 19th and 20th century class in college more than 20 years ago. A beautifully tragic tale of the life of concubines. It’s a wonderful movie. Watching it again, I still remember watching it a few months after I graduated with a friend and trying my best to explain to her what the film was about. I still really love this movie. Thank you so much for posting it here. 25:54

  • @guidofaria6721
    @guidofaria6721 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is a masterpiece.

  • @celestialfortuna37
    @celestialfortuna37 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    thank you for this. i remember i first watched it in the 1990s!!! i have since gone on to watch FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE AND RED SORGHUM. Excellent. thanks so much

    • @henbane2247
      @henbane2247 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for the info, I'll try and check those out too

  • @hareramful
    @hareramful 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Great great movie.

  • @murakaedutainment7526
    @murakaedutainment7526 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Such a wonderful story

  • @robynjefferson4779
    @robynjefferson4779 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of my favourite movies.

  • @inesborstel5592
    @inesborstel5592 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GREAT MOVIE, THANK YOU!👍👍👍

  • @thalia21315
    @thalia21315 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this movie so much. 5 time im watching until now

  • @AQuietNight
    @AQuietNight ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a good movie. Well worth watching.

  • @suradechtongbunchu1174
    @suradechtongbunchu1174 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Love the movie. Thank you very much. We also have this in Thai version, Mongkut Doksom ( A Crown from Orange Flower). It's a TV drama.

  • @franklinruiz1
    @franklinruiz1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GREAT MOVIE! 5 GOLDEN STARS OH NO 5 GOLDEN OSCARS!!!!!!

  • @FishFeelPain
    @FishFeelPain 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Beautiful movie--TY

  • @AlistairVigier1
    @AlistairVigier1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great movie!

  • @patricelopatin
    @patricelopatin ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this is a classic!