Director Chen Kaige moves from the epic sweep of Farewell My Concubine to a small, intimate story about a boy and his father--but creates just as rich an emotional impact. Liu Cheng (Liu Peiqi) takes his 13-year-old son Xiaochung (Tang Yun) to Beijing in the hope of finding a teacher who will foster the boy's talent on the violin. The adolescent boy soon becomes infatuated with one of their neighbors, a golddigger named Lili (the lovely Chen Hong), and becomes a pupil of Professor Jiang (Wang Zhiwen). But Liu discovers that a good teacher is not enough; if Xiaochung is to succeed in the world, he must have a teacher with connections--even if this ambition threatens to pull father and son apart. Together would be sappy if it weren't for the emotional honesty of the actors; under Kaige's clean direction, the movie is graceful and deeply moving. --Bret Fetzer
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Yun Tang | Liu Xiaochun |
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Peiqi Liu | Liu Cheng |
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Hong Chen | Lili |
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Zhiwen Wang | Prof. Jiang |
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Kaige Chen | Prof. Yu Shifeng |
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Qiang Chen | Hui |
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Qing Zhang | Lin Yu |
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Hye-ri Kim | Prof. Yu's Wife |
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Bing Liu | Debao |
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Chuan-Yuan Li | Tang Rong |
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Ru-Yun Tang | |
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Haiyan Zhang | Child's mother |
| Director | Kaige Chen |
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| Writer | Kaige Chen, Xiao Lu Xue | |
| Producer | Hong Chen, Kaige Chen, Lee Joo-Ick, Bolun Li, Ernst Etchie Stroh, Xiaoming Yan, Buting Yang | |
| Musician | Lin Zhao | |
| Photography | Jiongqiu Jin, Hyung-ku Kim | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Widescreen (16:9) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Distributor | MGM (Video & DVD) |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Nov 18, 2003 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
| Purchased | For $ 14.98 |
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| Index | 1127 |
| Added Date | Dec 12, 2012 01:15:29 |
| Modified Date | Mar 26, 2019 21:52:37 |