Raise the Red Lantern

…hong denglong gaogao gua (1991; Raise the Red Lantern). The drama, which focused on the tense and ultimately fatal competition between four wives for the favour of their elderly husband, received an Oscar nomination.

…with Ju Dou (1990) and Raise the Red Lantern (1991). In each of these films, Gong played a spirited young woman forced into marriage. She was soon wooed by Hong Kong producers and landed her first comic role in Terra-Cotta Warrior (1990), in which she is pursued throughout the centuries…