Women of Vengeance in Asian Film

Film Review # 46310

Asian Studies > East Asian Cultures
Film > Analysis, Criticism, Etc.

An analysis of three Asian movies, Kurosawa's "Ran," Yimou's "Raise the Red Lantern," and Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

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Paper Summary:

This essay compares and contrasts the characters of Lady Kaede in Akira Kurosawa's "Ran," the Second Mistress in Zhang Yimou's "Raise the Red Lantern," and Jade Fox in Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." It explains how their domesticated role is only a facade concealing their inner struggles of grief and inferiority, which manifest in their violent, devastating acts of vengeance.

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"Many script writers and directors craftily portray the inequality of gender as the orthodox lifestyle of many Asians and Asian Americans. In Kurosawa's Ran, Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern, and Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the directors illustrate Lady Kaede (Ran), the Second Mistress (RTRL), and Jade Fox (CTHD) as suppressed and domesticated Asian females in feudal society, which ultimately, this leads to an outbreak of vengeance that empowers these female characters."

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Women of Vengeance in Asian Film (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 10, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Film-Review-Women-of-Vengeance-in-Asian-Film/46310