"Director: Yang Li"

• Blind Shaft | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A gritty and sardonic portrait of modern China as epitomized by two Chinese con-men and their system for making money from owners of illegal coalmines.

• Chin Na In Depth - Courses 1 To 4 | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £29.38   |  Saving you £43.61 (148.43%)   |  RRP £72.99

• JU DOU | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The title character a peasant sold as a concubine to a cruel old man is played by the beautiful Gong Li one of the great actresses of our time who followed this brilliant work with spectacular performances in The Story of Qiu Ju (1991) Raise the Red Lantern (1992) and Farewell My Concubine (1993). Li Wei plays her master the childless owner of a dye mill in the agrarian China of the 1920s. Li Wei's fine performance combines craftiness with iniquity. The third character in the tragic triangle is Jin-shan's nephew Yang Tianqing a modest man who does most of the work in the dye mill. Ju Dou falls in love with Tianqing almost by default and it is their ill-fated love that leads to tragedy.