The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire

DramaRomance

Duration

1h 35m

Release

9 May 1991

Country

TaiwanHong Kong SAR China

Language

Chinese

Overview

A corrupt local official, Xi Men Qing, who lusts after women and money, pursues his brother's young wife, Lee Ping Er. Ping finds Men attractive, and under her drunken husband's nose, she and Men work their way through the illustrations of a pillow book, the "Golden Lotus." Men pursues the same feat with his fourth concubine, Pan Jing Lien, who lives in the compound next to Ping. Jing's jealousy compounds a tale of humiliation, childbirth, death, and depravity. Does karma or enlightenment await anyone?

Plot

Jin-Lian marries her beloved, Simon, but learns he is liaising with another woman, Ping-Er. In a no-holds-barred attempt to win his devotion, the two women embark on a physical and emotional sparring match that only one of them ca...