Ju dou wasn't that great, but it belongs to the genre that Yimou experimented with in late 80s and 90s- tales of feudal china. It was good, but not as good as huozhe (to live) or raising-the-red-lantern. yimou is completely different in these movies, and his cinematography is the best in all of eastern cinema I have known.
The difference between raising the red lantern and flying-daggers would be 10 times more than that between Spielberg's Schindler's list and 'jurassic park-the lost world'. You can't always compare two such movies from the same director, not in such case of Yimou by any means.
Apparently Ju dou was banned in Chine because it was considered to have shown the lead female character rebelling against the male authority.
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Apparently, "Nahin cholbe" is gender specific :)
I realize from your posts, you are a movie fanatic! Man, I wih I had the patience to sit through movies! I have watched Ben-Hur, Matrix and Anand from you list of must-see ones.
anurag, yimou ka funda mera samajh mein nahin aata. i watched "house of flying daggers" despite the ample warnings i got. the content was very poor. visuals were kind of nice in a "pretty colors" sort of way.
I agree. Flying daggers completely sucked. But raising-red-lantern or red-sorghum are completely different movies; I dunno may be he plagiarized, but they ARE good movies :)
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