Allmovie Rated Best

This exquisite story and multiple award winner, adapted from the novel Wives and Concubines was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1992. Songlian (Gong Li), is the newest wife to a master who already supports 3 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 foor of the wife with whom the master chooses to sleep. Let the rivalries begin!