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

[@mingchan6300]

A true masterpiece of Chinese Cinema! The women characters were all victims of tradition dominated and dictated by rich and powerful males - all trapped like animals in a dog-eat -dog world ; and all within the confines of a gorgeous mansion. Beautifully acted, photographed , scored and directed. The art design, first rate. The costumes are stunning. This is my second visit, having seen this film decades ago, and it's still such a pleasure to watch. Thank you for posting.

[@hammerandthewrench7924]

It’s really not that good. You’re over exaggerating yourself and it’s really embarrassing.

[@venganzamujer354]

@@hammerandthewrench7924 it’s not good to small minds

[@dsindun7224]

@@hammerandthewrench7924 maybe you do not understand traditional chinese culture well.

[@ironmaiden4396]

@@hammerandthewrench7924 You EMBARASS YOURSELF. Always trolling. Always putting others down. Allow others the freedom of thought and expression. You don't have to agree. You don't have to say a word. Who are you? Nobody.

[@terencewong6625]

This movie won BAFTA award for best film and the national Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography. Truly a great movie. This will be the 4th time watching it.

[@venganzamujer354]

i did not know about the Bafta....well deserved

[@HiiroofWiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinds]

Im 21 now but how i got introduced to this movie was in 6th grade we had an amazing history teacher who when we got to this type of history she wasnt able to play us the full movie but was able to use the trailer and show us bits and pieces of the movie explaining it. It stuck in my mond so much as she encouraged us if we could find the movie somewhere to watch to do so. And after all these years i still remembered the name and plot so seeked it out and im so incredibly happy to get to watch this movie in its entirety!

[@janedoe5229]

Thank you very much for uploading this complete version with English subtitles. Such a profound movie. So visually beautiful. So subtle. So tragic. Thank you.

[@yanqiuma6411]

没看出受到高等教育的智 2:01:14 慧和见识，倒是勾心斗角的害人害己。无聊的很

[@SFGal9]

I was finishing college in the 90s. For some reason, there was a lot of fine art Asian movies. Chicago had movie theaters that showed primarily fine art films. Ah, how wonderful were those days.

[@jacquelinefaulknall8513]

I love this film so much and I’ve watched it so often that I know the script without subtitles. Every frame is perfect and beautiful and the story is heartbreaking.

[@ZiYe-ob9xp]

Song Lian is a more complex character in the original novel. She was given the choice between working in a factory or getting married, she chose to marry, indicating that while she was an educated modern girl in the outside, at core she was drawn to the power and wealth of the old system…

[@jackhunter5853]

Would you recommend the book, or does the film do it justice?

[@trangbriggs6780]

While serving as a Visiting Professor in Shanghai many years ago, I watched this film on Chinese TV, and then purchased the DVD set. Still have it, among many other Chinese movies, this is an incredibly well-made historic film that shows an accurate and intense side of Chinese culture.

[@areechonpasuwan1592]

this movie is based on a novel, not a legend or historical.

[@n1mogator]

So rich chines men in past not un like epstean and other rich Americans?

[@HoangNguyen-kt4sg]

WAS THE CULTURE more than 100 years ago...

[@rosalindchu7588]

The story was artistically exaggerated n dramatized.

[@Nangong-zo5of4id6r]

@@areechonpasuwan1592 The novel has no historical prototype? Not part of humanity? Which man in China doesn’t want to be emperor? The owner in this movie is just a local emperor. Is there any difference between hanging a lantern and an emperor's flop? What is the difference between these women and the concubines in the palace? Be confident and dare to face your own culture.

[@lubavukadinovic5752]

After watching this movie I have deepest gratitude for my life. It was heard but I did experience freedom to make my decisions. Life without freedom is absolut waist. I love my body that belongs to me as much as soul. That is power, only treasure we can find. I feel sorry for thous WHO posses others, they live in poverty. 😢

[@richardong6640]

One of my all time favourites, I still think it’s the best work from director Zhang Yimou! Brilliantly filmed and acted especially the great Gong Li.

[@ianoates378]

Fine movie but so is The Road Home

[@richardong6640]

@@ianoates378 I totally agree with you. I have all his films on DVDs. Love his early films!

[@OutragedPufferfish]

I like this movie but I also think it's a little pompous. I liked "Ju Dou" more.

[@rachelbaziak4159]

Just brilliant!

[@davidmakinster8521]

Gong Li is such a versatile and authentic actor. My all-time favorite.

[@andrewcolinwilson1]

Mine too and my favorite character she plays is Hatsumomo from Memoirs of a Geisha who is a Japanese character and 2 of the people who worked on this film are Japanese as well; Naoki Tachikawa and Toshiyuki Honda.

[@mmca7288]

This is more realistic than the other shows that r put on and I personally feel more of the truth and sorrow when ur looked at as a possession and not a loved one sadly. Thanks for uploading it xo

[@angelawang5925]

Such a great movie. So powerful. Gong Li and He SaiFei (third mistress) are so talented.

[@ZahratAlmaddien]

third mistress is excellent performance

[@andrewcolinwilson1]

I know right and Meishan was right when she told Songlian that she shouldn't have been too hard on Yan'er.

[@dashoverton1963]

The architecture of these old Chinese buildings is simply remarkable. How each building is linked, the steps, the roofs, the designs. Magnificent.

[@janedoe5229]

The servant girl watching her lanterns burn. Her dreams of being a mistress and not a servant. That the master would "love" her instead of use her. All up in flames. She would not apologize for her dreams of being with the master. She "loved" him. Yet, he was only concerned about his reputation if she died. He did not care about HER. She was nothing to him. All of those women were not people to him, but property.

[@youtuber5305]

Trophy wives.

[@RukoHanaji]

Confucianism in a nutshell.

[@youtuber5305]

Birds in a gilded cage.

[@ginamolina2075]

Ver y sad 😢 dos not like it

[@embun1945]

Communist confusianism; XI Jin Ping democracy with communism characteristics.

[@gimhanikk3134]

Thank you for uploading this wonderful movie. The director and all the people who supported this movie, thank you and you guys did a great job. All the viewers, take the deep message the movie gives and stay happy.❤

[@siazobola511]

I have watched this film when first played in the cinema and I have never forgotten it. It was so powerful and my first meeting with this excellent director Yimou. Thank you for uploading this film and I had the opportunity to watch it again❤❤

[@dorothymwu]

I enjoyed the movie. It’s unfortunate that 4th wife never escaped from there. I thought there would be a turning point because she was so sure she would turn things into her favor.

[@IsThisThePrizeIveWaitedFor]

I first saw this movie in my early 20s and it left such a lasting impression on me. It’s insane that there’s no Criterion Collection Blu-ray version of it. Thank you for uploading. After all these years, it’s still so hauntingly beautiful and tragic.

[@janedoe5229]

Every time I watch this, I see new nuances. This time I saw that 2nd mistress was so nice to 4th mistress, because "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". 3rd Mistress replaced 2nd mistress, and now 4th mistress will replace 3rd mistress. Every time 3rd mistress was upset, 2nd mistress was pleased. But as new mistresses kept coming, she would soon be forgotten like 1st mistress, so she really hated all of them. 1st Mistress was the bride of his youth. 2nd mistress was younger, pretty, fun, bubbly. 1st mistress could not compete with that. 3rd Mistress was a glamorous celebrity. 2nd mistress could not compete with that. 4th mistress was younger still, and "educated". 3rd Mistress could not compete with that. and 5th mistress is an inexperienced child, unaware that she has been dropped into a pool of piranhas. As 1st mistress said in the beginning: such sins. She has watched her young handsome husband turn into a selfish, lecherous, unfeeling, murderer and child molester. But she is also happy to use her power when she has the chance to destroy the other mistresses. And why should the master marry the slave? He owns all the slaves. He can have whomever he wants at any time. They are ALL nothing but property to him, even the mistresses. He has no "love" for any of them.

[@MachaLatte123]

The word 'mistress' is an incorrect translation. The 'first/elder mistress' is actually the wife (and usually the first wife, hence older), and the only one that can normally accompany the husband to outside functions. The wife also typically needs to match his social status (coming from a family with similar social standing) and is not considered 'property' like the other concubines, which can be easily be discarded (sold, kicked out of the household or killed). All other 'mistresses' are legally married 'concubines' (not illicit mistresses in the western sense). No matter which 'mistress' is being favored, the wife is tasked with keeping the 'order' within the household and holds the power in the household. While the husband can acquire or dispose of as many 'mistresses' as he wishes (aka killing the third 'mistress'), he cannot easily get rid of his wife. Weddings are normally conducted for the marriage to the wife, and only very rarely can a concubine get a wedding, because concubines don't have the same social standing as the master of the household nor his guests. This was shown in the movie where the 4th and 5th 'mistress' entered the household without any wedding.

[@lovemagicandroad]

Well stated!

[@lovemagicandroad]

For most men woman are just for sex food, maybe a little company, not much else. They’re gentlemen in the beginning when they claim they’re in love, but once they get what they want they change. Well mine did, but I think I had an unusually mean selfish husband. He discarded me fast after I got cancer and couldn’t work cook, didn’t put out anymore, due to illness. My dad wasn’t this way at all, he was true to my mom and loved her, cherished her above all else. They were married some 50 years or so. There are exceptions out there, just not many.

[@lovemagicandroad]

Muslims also have bunch of wifes, as do some Mormons, or used to. I think way back when even the ancient hebrews were permitted more than one wife. Let’s face it. Men are just horny…when young anyway. We women have often been valued very low, despite giving birth to everyone and running the households, we feed everyone, although it seems in India, some men cook, but India another country where women are treated very poorly. Want to be on charge as a woman, visit Malawi, near S Africa, woman are in charge and can have several husbands, that work for them.

[@lovemagicandroad]

The servant wants to be a mistress?

[@marie-christinemontegu9503]

🇫🇷 J’ai vu ce film au cinéma, j’ai le DVD et le revois encore comme la première fois. Je le vois avec une émotion intense, avec une angoisse présente qui m’étreint chaque fois. La sobriété de la mise en scène accentue l’anticipation d’une tragédie que l’on sait avoir commencé dès les premières scènes. C’est un film d’une grande intensité et d’une qualité extrême.

[@taravaotahiti]

Marie-Christine, je suis tout a fait d'accord avec votre commentaire.

[@marie-christinemontegu9503]

@@taravaotahiti oui ! C’est un film tout à fait remarquable. Merci pour votre aimable commentaire.

[@youtuber5305]

For those who think there is nothing worse than being at the mercy of a person's WILL, doesn't this movie remind us there is something far worse--being at the mercy of a person's WHIMS?

[@yananneteoh9818]

NOP! This film has to be seen in the context of the plight of women, the expectations made on them - to be a a faithful wife, to bear children esp. afraid of a male heir, to remain a passive female suffering the follies of men.

[@creepersonspeed5490]

I don't disagree with you, but we have to keep the historical power dynamics into focus. As much as the women build their own essentially courtly structures with wage war with eachother, it is ultimately the man who decides all of this. And it is his whims that are also the deciding factor. The only one who wins here is he.

[@SofiyaChaudhari-iy8wc]

Is it just me? But I felt the director intentionally only focused on the female characters. I tried hard to see The master. But he was never shown in close up. It was amazing to able to see the artistic building. It felt like a small village rather than a house. I loved the veranda. The director was amazing to actually showcase major events with simplest of action. This thing is rare in modern cinema these days.

[@Yumedekissmeee]

That’s the point. The viewers are supposed to see the situation through the lens of the mistresses.

[@freehan510]

I like how the director did this, you really get a sense of the distance from the master, a reflection of the relationship of the master and his concubines.

[@sowmaywong4623]

An amazing movie ! I saw it long ago. It still evokes the same emotions in me the second time around. Thanks for posting. Please post more such great movies.

[@yananneteoh9818]

Pls post Farewell My Concubine and all the great films of Zhang Yi M oui U and Cheng Yi (?) China's films from the 80s and 90s!

[@fauzianalwoga]

This movie should be watched by every woman across the world especially when it comes to getting married 😢

[@farmboy_bry]

The movie is beautiful and haunting at the same time.

[@JudithBerman]

I watched this decades ago and still remember it clearly today. A wonderful movie, a real story, too painful to watch again.

[@teagoldleaf4137]

I watched this film in the mid 90s, it left a lasting impression. They don't make them like this anymore.

[@TheeGreatX]

I watched this movie when I was 10! I finally re-watched it and jeeeezus!!! This is just a straight up MASTERPIECE! It was made in 1991?! Wheeewwww....it still holds up in chinese contemporary. There is a REASON why this film is in The New York Times's list of The Best 1000 Movies Ever Made coming in 209th. Still very respectable, considering how many movies were ever created lol. Great movie!

[@annanguyen5495]

Same with me

[@janjic]

I'd be hard pressed to name 208 films better than this one :-)

[@henriorihuelamondalgo3686]

Day by day I'm learning from this amazing and controversial culture... Thank you for uploading this movie... How sad could a person feel? Alone and vulnerable... it's a mix of feelings and questions without answers... it's difficult to comment it because what was good in the past now is bad .... it depends of the context the year and the country... it's a good idea to watch it again to a better analysis...

[@MadanSuvedi]

Amazing movie. It came so late in KZbin after I watched it some 5 or more years ago. Chinese good movies are rare in KZbin.

[@Alypinkflower]

Thnx for sharing this movie Gong li is a beautiful authentic famous actress all time favorite ❤️🌷 Hope she continues her movie making

[@sureshamh7580]

Her first mistake was keep Ya'ner the servant girl by her side even after knowing she is not loyal to her mistress.

[@ZahratAlmaddien]

this is very questionable

[@JazzHands]

15:25 I can just see a modern film maker failing to make this scene so powerful. She cries in the mirror? Okay film it, done. But this movie does it so well! She walks over, picks up a red lantern, one of the literal motifs of the movie, and stands emotionlessly in front of the mirror. She has a metaphorical mask on, one where she betrays no emotion. She has been sold off to an old rich man, violated, disrespected by the third mistress, and left alone on her “wedding night”. A single tear falls down her cheek, and her mask slips. She gives in momentarily to a moment of despair at the fate she has been dealt, and then the mask comes back on. Masks like the second wife wears, or the third mistress has in her literal house. This is such a beautiful and despairing movie.

[@lovemagicandroad]

IMO This needs to be reclassified as a HORROR FLICK!

[@lovemagicandroad]

It’s funny she played the record player. Too funny, could they really not tell the difference. Nice singing though. I like the chorus group singing is so pretty.

[@artlovervictoria]

There is nothing romantic about the movie but it is interesting, a sad reality for women in the past and for many in the present worldwide.

[@MarianLuca-rz5kk]

Yes, sad reality , because they sell themselves to rich men , then they say they are treated like possessions.

[@artlovervictoria]

@@MarianLuca-rz5kk Most men worldwide, rich or poor, eventually in a relationship, treat their woman like an object, no matter why she married him, that's just how it is. About the movie, In many countries like China women married because their family would receive money or favors. So most often girls were married or were sold to help their families. Also, like in the movie, girls were *forced* to become a concubine or a legal wife according to whomever the parents chose.

[@yananneteoh9818]

There's nothing to suggest this is a romantic film!

[@dianepeters8685]

My favourite film. At last, I can share what I've been talking about for many years.

[@7kaisheba]

In what way? What part was significant to you?

[@SofiyaChaudhari-iy8wc]

Thank you for the upload. Though the ending is sad but it showed the reality of the women’s life at that time. N made me realise to appreciate my current life in current time and world.

[@margaretmaguire3329]

Saw it years ago still remember it as it was great

[@helenasollei8798]

No blood , no violence, no Guns, no nudity , no bad words , no special effect ,,,GREAT moovie

[@SattarM-ju3dv]

Perfect words... Totally agree

[@teddysantoso7223]

the violence is the lethal punishment to the third mistress, why you did not see that?

[@janedoe5229]

It's interesting after 4th mistress said, "We are not people in this house, but we are treated like dogs, cats or rats". Then the maid dies and she is taken back to her grieving family. The maid was a person too. She was an ignorant, helpless little girl, trapped, just like she is.

[@Alusnovalotus]

That’s true, but the maid (rat) betrayed the 4th mistress. It wasn’t Songlians’ fault Yan er was holding onto the false promises the master gave her. That and second mistress was helping her against another rival. She was a pawn for one wife, a servant to another and a toy to the master. Songlian was right. It was better for the servant to die than to go on suffering.

[@gggggggg-fv2xb]

If a good system brings out the best in people, doesn't a bad system bring out the worst?

[@bobbybeltran6142]

One of the defining films of the 90's, and one of the best in world cinema. This is Yimou's masterpiece!

[@mincietan6184]

Zhang yi mou movies is always touched our heart, made us thinking about our live ❤❤❤

[@jackhunter5853]

Spellbinding. This is the best film I've seen in years. I cried for the beauty

[@pattywatson2350]

Beautiful film, absolutely amazing work in cinematography.

[@FerdinandM-c1y]

It's a suck movie!

[@maryannonglatco3975]

One of Zhang Yi Mou's cinematic masterpieces. One of the world's best films ever ❣️

[@wandawolfe8665]

The architecture is amazing!

[@lees7340]

I saw the movie in 1993 for the first time at a film festival in college in Malaysia, just realized that’s 30 years ago. 😂

[@10sansari]

Wow that's amazing, Im watching this right now as a part of my Chinese Cinema class in college 31 years later! Good day to you my friend!

[@lees7340]

@youknowkbbabyAs someone who have lived in both the U.S. and Malaysia, I live a much better quality of life and pays a lot less taxes in Malaysia. 😂

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

A million thanks for sharing this wonderful film with us. What great story with great acting and great direction. Very powerful stuff!

[@butterflywings9656]

that man had four wives but still had that maid by his side disgracing his legal wives, that man is not satisfying his wives who had nobody but that old sick man as a husband but he has all variety of age to satisfy his vicious lust for women, he fails to run his household with faithfullness what a looser a weak man, this movie is brilliant, actors did a phenomenal performance well done director, but they should have punished second wife for her sins too in the story

[@catherinebrau3523]

A tragic ending. Visually perfect

[@socheoteyza6211]

Saw this movie years ago really good. Gong Li is so beautiful

[@janiceleeripley443]

I saw this on the big screen in SF when it came out. It still haunts me.

[@scouticuss2121]

I have been looking for this film for so long and here it is.! TY.

[@caroleappling2007]

Absolutely love this movie, I watched so many times over the years 💕

[@mallikadasi]

why would you "love" a movie like this? Tormented ladies trying to survive in a sick household.

[@caroleappling2007]

@@mallikadasiDon’t be so simple, I don’t love the torture of the characters. It’s the acting , the production..the glimpse into an unknown world. You know the things people love about cinema.

[@natlovers98]

Thank you for uploading this one of my favourite movies. I watched it twice. This movie is so perfect allure and excellent background music. Anyway, even nowadays some Asian men are still treating women (even wives) as their property and not the loved ones.

[@MaiXoxo3]

It sucks being a woman sometimes lol no matter how educated this is how we are treated while men can do whatever they want and get away with it especially if they are rich and powerful. He can have so many wives but once one cheats, its the end of the world. And we have to suck it up even when they do wrong we are supposed to stay silent and act happy like we are okay.

[@wulfsorenson8859]

I think you’re stuck in the Middle Ages hun 🙄

[@patriciarivera9346]

This is why women must be empowered

[@florencesim336]

I like this movie and rewatched it several time. Thanks for sharing

[@bobbyhanly3466]

Amazing movie. Long, long time since I saw it on the big screen. Gong Li!!!!!!!

[@s...7171]

Thank you for uploading this movie, i was searching for a long time, i viewed that movie in the 1992.

[@Nisal-or1zg]

What a start😮 it's just like a funeral not a wedding.

[@LyAnnlartisteàParis]

Thank you for putting this movie here ❤

[@ladykayura89]

This is one of my all time favorite movies!! Thanks so much 🙏🏾💓

[@yiddena]

Wow. Amazingly beautiful and haunting film!

[@Jet-xk7ss]

I saw this years ago. It was amazing.

[@elizemmerry]

Beautiful movie..just sad ending.

[@ianoates378]

Such a fine director. I also enjoyed The Road Home

[@jacquelineamar438]

Magnificent movie! Very sad too🥲🥲🥲

[@Severine-h4o]

Yes very sad These 4 mistresses are worth nothing for this rich man..He only wants trophies and satisfy his needs and have a son, a future heir..but they are objects for him properties, nothing more .. Its sad ..They live in a gilded cage just to compete with each other and be the favorite of the master ..They have no aim for them no purpose nothing..They could have studied , read in their room and written memoirs or learnt to sing or play an instrument..

[@loveyourneighbor9354]

It is, in my opinion, sad and an awful plight of women in that period of time. Having to be one of many to marry a man they didn't have a choice in and having to compete with favors for his attention. So disappointed, this was no romantic movie. Scary

[@victorynowall]

I am half way into the movie. Just curious to know what other viewers thoughts. You said it right not "romantic " at all. It's all about a rich man who can afford concubines. Not much of a creativity in the production (action wise)

[@SattarM-ju3dv]

Yes this is not love move, absolute tragedy, so this is very deep and artistically move ever seen, really impressed me too much, I'm 50 & saw too much films in my whole life but this is very different form at all, also compare to the time of made very post modern at all, plot or direct or cut or light or camera angle or etc... In short very amazing move but huge difference & bitter mixed truth of human life... In one word Absolutely tragic story... Tribute to this director, screen written and film at all... Tribute

[@margaretgallegos2975]

Terrible movie. I waisted my time watching it hoping a better ending outcome for the 4th mistress. Aloha! Oahu, Hawaii USA

[@officience1]

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[@nailily]

This was also a time where treating your child as a product was fairly acceptable. Parents could legally sell their children.. so cultural twists on filial piety becomes a shackle on the society.

[@betha7910]

This is among top 100 movies in the last century

[@annanguyen5495]

This movie is excellent ❤

[@suemcculley7710]

💖 excellent! I saw this over 20 years ago... It's still good! 💖

[@RubeeKikuyu]

Masterpiece, unforgettable.

[@osnatshaibe1534]

Thank you for this wonderful drama and blessings for the english subtitles 👍🙏

[@maryamwriter3500]

I read the novela first and it was so much better but l did enjoyed the movie

[@chouchou6140]

can admin pl upload other gong li movies. this has been repeated many times. tq

[@zygmuntkubasiak3049]

Masterpiece.

[@nervenavar2649]

Gong Li young and naive at 19. She's the smartest among the four concubine. Chinese are typically known to have mistresses outside marriage even till this days. The more sugar the plenty are the bees attracted. The maid is the key to ruins and damages so never trust them with your secrets.

[@vanpham-dl4ox]

An excellent movie, so galvanising

[@jewelbriard5444]

I am giving this a 10 + rating

[@ValBrindilles]

Epouses et Concubines sortie en France en 1991, je me souviens. Je vais le regarder avec les sous-titres en anglais. Merci pour le partage. 🫰💐

[@anonymous-d5s]

the music is soo candid , sounds almost like indian music over here in mountain regions and rural areas of orissa and chhattisgarh.

[@youtuber5305]

The following is the story of a Chinese woman who received a modern education but was trapped by tradition: "The Tragic Life of China’s Last Empress: Wanrong - She went Crazy in the end" (2023 KZbin upload)

[@OutragedPufferfish]

The moral of the story: don't get drunk, alcohol can make you do things that you regret later.

[@lydiashandro3037]

Excellent movie.

[@dominicayyanikkatt7463]

The details of the story as presented in this Movie may be a thing of the past. But the message of the story is very relevant. A patriarchal society that uses women for their selfish comforts is oppressive any time anywhere. Today only the means and methods of oppression have changed but the reality remains. A Movie for which it is worth spending two hours.

[@wulfsorenson8859]

The reality only remains in your delusional Marxist head space Sarah.

[@angelawidjaja8215]

It's interesting that the 3rd mistress said the 2nd mistress has the face of Buddha, but a wicked heart. 2nd mistress seemed very kind n patient, with a smiley face, but she is a conniving witch with an evil heart. Why didn"t she get her comeuppance at all... She used other people to bring misery to her "enemy"/competitor. The naïve 4th mistress learnt her lessons too late n got manipulated by the 2nd and 3rd mistresses. None of the mistresses looked happy, the 5th one looked so scared like she was about to cry on her wedding day. Sucks to be a woman... To be trapped and hopeless 😢😢

[@tracys169]

She didn't get her 'comeuppance' because it mirrors 'real life'--people who are cunning, generally will be able to get away with things. And the cycle continues as mistress 5 will be deceived also by her, and she will have no one to warn her (she'll learn herself). And as mistress 2 grows older (less attractive), her master/husband will definitely prefer his younger concubine BUT, with age, her master/husband will prefer companionship to sex, as he may not be as spry as he used to be. And mistress 2 is excellent at being amiable and 'sweet.'

[@youtuber5305]

@tracys169 Isn't the best way to bring out deviousness and slyness in people to enslave them by denying them the possibility of having normal relationships which is part of leading a normal life?

[@angelaworld5383]

It’s better to be poor than rich, at least a poor man would treat you better, his possessions are empty but his heart is full❤ On the other side, a rich man is full of possessions, but his heart is empty.

[@Alusnovalotus]

Agree to disagree. It was the poor stepmother who nagged Songlian to marry a rich man. Those who have not will always envy the haves, yet never notice the lack of happiness because they focus on the material.

[@youtuber5305]

Could prosperity serve to dehumanize people by making them view other people as property?

[@Alusnovalotus]

@@youtuber5305 yes and no. China went through that stage during the communist revolution and ended up right back where it started.

[@angelaworld5383]

⁠@@Alusnovalotus That’s so sad, but she still had the choice to marry a normal man, and she’s the one who decided to marry a rich one. The phrase “i didn’t have a choice” doesn’t exist really, because you ALWAYS have a choice, good or bad. Songlian made her choice, and she had to face the consequences.

[@gggggggg-fv2xb]

Don't stepmothers have a bad reputation in Chinese society?

[@richarda.valdes1197]

Different type of movie that most would watch but it’s good. Read the comments and you’ll see that not much have changed😢

[@_wwId]

this is not a romance movie. please correct the title of your video.

[@NadiyaLili-y9n]

It's so beautiful movie

[@youtuber5305]

Could this Winston Churchill quote also apply to customs?: "We shape our buildings and afterward our buildings shape us."

[@ziza4602]

Tqvm fr sharing this movie. Gong Li❤

[@cattheminion]

well that was depressing. very well done and worht the watch

[@poojasharma-wv5hc]

This is masterpiece 👏👏👏

[@lovemagicandroad]

Concubine? I’ve still only minutes into this beautiful but super slow movie. Yet not figured out what it’s about but I presume the dynamics of the household.

[@lovemagicandroad]

The servant girls are treated even worse than the wives.

[@lovemagicandroad]

All these women with perfect bodies, why does man deserve them? Is there even any love in this household? It says romance, where is it?

[@lovemagicandroad]

Heck I never got a foot massage before sex. Guess I’ve been deprived….nay not really. I’d hate to have this kinda lifestyle marriage, would suck so bad.

[@lovemagicandroad]

Most men cheap and have mistresses, this guy just does it legally. 😂

[@lovemagicandroad]

Did you leave her bed to check on another ”sister” and come back and the servant girl was on it, or was my vision just blurred?

[@wandawolfe8665]

A very disturbing movie. A prison! What a waste of a woman’s life!

[@samualcrocket1405]

Good quality movie.