A sort of Chinese Edna Ferber epic, to do with a doughty young maiden (or Chinese Jane Wyman) taking over her fiancé's winery after his murder, surviving an attack by bandits but not by the Japanese army, and leaving behind a nine-year-old son to tell the tale. Highly commercial, highly professional, although too often merely pretty, merely decorative, and slowed down by its propensity to admire the sights. With Gong Li; directed by Zhang Yimou. (1987) — Duncan Shepherd
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