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Which 1991 film by Zhang Yimou, banned in China, follows a dye-mill owner who takes a concubine, only for the lovers' affair to end in tragedy when their child drowns the elderly husband in a vat of dye?

Answer: Ju Dou — Ju Dou was the first Chinese film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but Zhang Yimou was forbidden from attending the ceremony.

Ju Dou was the first Chinese film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but Zhang Yimou was forbidden from attending the ceremony.

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