Gong Li
HER 'GEISHA' ROLE Hatsumomo, the wicked stepmother type who is a cruel taskmaster to the girl Chiyo and a jealous rival to her when Chiyo grows up to be the geisha Sayuri
WHERE YOU KNOW HER FROM Raise the Red Lantern (1991), the best known of her many films directed by Zhang Yimou, in which she plays a wife jockeying for power in a polygamous marriage in feudal China
LITTLE-KNOWN GEM Ju Dou (1990), another great Zhang Yimou film, in which Gong plays an adulterous wife who encourages her lover to kill her husband, à la The Postman Always Rings Twice
ALSO SHINES IN Several other Zhang Yimou epics (including 1994's To Live and 1987's Red Sorghum); Chen Kaige's romantic tragedy Farewell My Concubine (1993); The Emperor and the Assassin (1999), Chen's treatment of the same historical episode retold by Zhang in Hero, and 2046 (2005), where Gong plays a gambler loved by the writer Chow (Tony Leung)
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