The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Blu-ray)

They found a love they dared not touch!
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  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: September 22, 2020
  • Originally Released: 1932
  • Label: Sony

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User Ratings: 796
Rating: 4/5 -- Weird, poetic, deliberately pretentious drama from Capra.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Nov 24, 2003
Rating: 10/10 -- If any Hollywood film from the '30s is positively begging to be rediscovered...this is it. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Sep 27, 2007
Rating: 55/100 -- An odd duck to be sure: substantially darker than the other Capra films I've seen, with a Chinese civil war and firing squads serving as the backdrop for a love story that never really comes together. Full Review
Film and Felt
Jul 4, 2010
Rating: 3.5/5 -- The 'bitter tea' of the title is, of course, a not so veiled allusion to the cup of suffering that Christ asks to be taken from him but to which he says "not my will, but yours be done." Full Review
1More Film Blog
Dec 20, 2019

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Though seemingly tame by contemporary standards, this tale of suggested interracial romance proved to be shocking in its day. Missionary Megan Davis travels from her staid New England home to Shanghai during China's civil unrest in the 1930s. There, she joins her fiance, Robert Strike, but the couple is separated while trying to liberate an orphanage -- and Megan falls into the hands of Chinese warlord General Yen. To their mutual surprise, Megan and General Yen develop an affinity for one another. Though he orders the massacre of hundreds during the day, Yen at night reveals a rueful, poetic side, and their affection deepens. However, the inroads made by Chinese rebels threaten to end their tentative courtship in a bloody manner that, Yen surmises, has been predetermined by his own deeds.

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  • Sales Rank: 58,417
  • UPC: 043396570238
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