Raise the Red Lantern (US Version) DVD Region 1

The old master of a powerful family in 1920's China supports three wives. Each has her own house within the closed world of the family compound, where every evening a red lantern is lit in front of the door of the wife with whom the master chooses to sleep. Let the rivalries begin.

"...Gong Li delivers a performance of exquisite expressiveness that, like the film itself, is unnerving in its emotional nakedness..." - Peter, Travers (Rolling Stone Critic), Rolling Stone, 03/19/1992

"...A beautifully crafted and richly detailed feat....[Gong] reveals unexpected sharpness as well as great depths of dignity and sorrow..." - Janet, Maslin (New York Times Critic), New York Times, 03/20/1992

"...A dazzling dynastic melodrama....Presented with a precise and lustrous pictorial beauty unseen in Eastern cinema since KAGEMUSHA..." - Harlan, Kennedy (Film Comment Critic), Film Comment, 11/01/1991

"...As slow, quiet and ritualized as the life it depicts....Zhang revels in the beauty of his actresses..." - Owen, Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly Critic), Entertainment Weekly, 05/01/1992

"...A film of astonishing beauty and terror that has the impact of a Greek or Shakespearean tragedy..." - Kevin, Thomas (Film critic), Los Angeles Times, 03/13/1992

"...A Chinese film of voluptuous physical beauty and angry passions..." - Roger, Ebert (Critic and screenwriter), Chicago Sun-Times, 03/27/1992

4 stars out of 4 -- "The use of color is exquisite, sensual and as imaginative as Zhang's framing of shots." - Mike, Clark (USA Today Critic), USA Today, 08/03/2007

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Product Title:	Raise the Red Lantern (US Version) Raise the Red Lantern (US Version) Raise the Red Lantern (US Version) Raise the Red Lantern (US Version) Raise the Red Lantern (US Version)
Artist Name(s):	Jin Shuyuan (Actor) | Ma Jingwu (Actor) | He Caifei (Actor) | Cao Cuifeng (Actor) | Gong Li (Actor) Jin Shuyuan (Actor) | Ma Jingwu (Actor) | He Caifei (Actor) | Cao Cuifeng (Actor) | Gong Li (Actor) Jin Shuyuan (Actor) | Ma Jingwu (Actor) | He Caifei (Actor) | Cao Cuifeng (Actor) | Gong Li (Actor) Jin Shuyuan (Actor) | Ma Jingwu (Actor) | He Caifei (Actor) | Cao Cuifeng (Actor) | Gong Li (Actor) Jin Shuyuan (Actor) | Ma Jingwu (Actor) | He Caifei (Actor) | Cao Cuifeng (Actor) | Gong Li (Actor)
Director:	Zhang Yimou 張藝謀 张艺谋 張藝謀（チャン・イーモウ） 장이모우
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Release Date:	2007-07-24
UPC Code:	027616082626
Language:	Mandarin
Subtitles:	English, Spanish, French
Country of Origin:	China
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Color Information:	Color
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	PG (MPAA)
Publisher:	20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Package Weight:	110 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004852266

Director: Yimou Zhang

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
(unspecified) - Chinese/Mandarin
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional