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The Story of Qiu Ju
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396141124
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: Cantonese (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Chinese (Dubbed),
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 14112
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Running Time: 100 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 1993
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Editorial Review:
The kick is never shown, but the entire film is based around it. It's winter in the remote Shaanxi province. Pregnant Qiu Ju (Gong Li, 2046) is married to laidback farmer Qinglai (Liu Pei Qi). When village chief Wang (Lei Lao Sheng) kicks him during an argument, she sets out to ensure that her husband receives medical attention--and justice. Clad in a bulky jacket, face partially obscured by a thick scarf, the strong-willed woman, joined by sister-in-law Meizi (Yang Liu Chun), travels far and wide to find someone who can coerce Wang to apologize (she asked, he refused). All agree the chief was in the wrong, but each authority with whom she meets hands her off to another. Along the way, the couple is offered financial compensation (for medical care and lost wages), but an apology is as elusive as a dragonfly in December. Taking cues from both Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) and Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves), Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers) presents modern-day China as a country where bureaucrats run the show and the citizens--especially the women--must suffer the consequences. Fortunately, some are more persistent than others, and The Story of Qiu Ju is far from tragic. Just as their fifth pairing represents one of Yimou's rare contemporary efforts, the dressed-down title character is also an anomaly for Li, his real-life love at the time. The risk paid off and the result is one of their most cherished collaborations. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
A humorous fable of justice that traverses shot in the north of China. Gong Li plays Qiu Ju a tenacious farmer determined to right a wrong done to her husband. Defying all stereotypes of the passive Chinese woman she remains unbowed by the frustrations of bureaucracy in her quixotic search for dignity.System Requirements:Run Time: 100 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN Rating: PG UPC: 043396141124 Manufacturer No: 14112
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A Glimpse of Rural China
I liked "The Story of Qui Ju" bacause it was a nice story about a woman in rural China who wants simple justice. Her efforts to rectify an embarassing wrong done to her husband expands to a point beyond anyone's expectation. The beauty of the movie is in the process and determination of Qui Ju to receive satisfaction. The characters are very well presented (especially the title character). The view we get of life in China is outstanding. As much as I enjoyed this movie, however, I have seen ... Read More
Rating:  - Sometimes you get what you wanted...
Qiu Ju wants the town's chief to explain why he kicked her husband in the family jewels. She does not want money or even justice. She wants to know WHY he kicked her husband and she wants an apology. The whole movie is her climb up the ladder of law, trying again and again to just get what she wants. A simple answer and an apology. In the end she kind of wins but she also loses. Right when you think there is going to be a happy ending, kind of, the authorities finally take things seriously ... Read More
Rating:  - I guess I have a lot to learn....
This movie was dull. I'm sorry, but it was for me. However, before writing a review I was hesitant to write at all, I read the reviews and realized how uneducated I am in many aspects of film and realized much of what I was blind to in my urgency to have some plot development.
I understood the point the movie set out to make, it isn't a deep one. That's part of the whole issue with me...the movie is practically a documentary and moves slowly and methodically towards its stupor awakening surprise ... Read More
Rating: - "The Story of Qui Ju" Tells of Driven Justice
Gong Li plays Qui Ju who is the pregnant wife of a farmer who grows peppers for a living. Qui Ju's husband goes to the "leader" of the village to ask permission to build a shed in which to dry their peppers to prepare them for market. When the leader of the village says "no" to Qui Ju's husband, he insults the leader of the village by saying that he "can only have girl children!" That infuriates the leader of the village and he kicks Qui Ju's husband in his "private parts" which leaves him laid up in bed ... Read More
Rating: - The justice is blind but, from time to time, opens its eyes!
Once more, the genius of Yimou Zhang is carved in relief through this simple and zealous story about a woman who decides to take to the last instances, an abominable act of aggression and cruelty exerted by the mayor of a small village over her husband. She is pregnant, but although this circumstance, she doesn't give up and just accompanied by her sister, she will do the best she can in order the justice was made.
A story whose influence comes directly from the Italian Nero Realism, well narrated ... Read More
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