The Eleventh Child (1998)

Restaurant owner Tang the 11th, learning his older brother, Tang the First is ill, returns to the his remote native village, long plagued by leprosy. Superstition holds that a cure can be obtained when a family of five sons and five daughters makes possible the death of a fish from the Lake of Heaven, since the leprosy remedy is in the flesh of this fish. It just so happens that Tang the 11th has five sons, four daughters, and a pregnant wife.

Released

1998-11-24

Genres

Drama

Runtime

91 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Dai Sijie, Nadine Perront, Dai Sijie

TMDB rating

6.0/10 from 2 votes