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Completed - JAPANESE - Drama, Historical - 115 minutes

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2011 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2011 (Screening)
Full history

Year of production : 2010

Director(s) : Zhang YIMOU
Cast : Shawn DOU, Zhou DONGYU

Producer(s) : Cao HUAYI, Hugo SHONG, Zhang WEIPING

Synopsis

Jing, an innocent high school girl, is sent to a remote mountain village for 'reeducation' during the Cultural Revolution. With her father imprisoned as a 'rightist', her ostracized mother struggles to support her three children. Jing knows that her future and her family's well-being depend on how well she behaves in the eyes of the authorities.
One wrong move and their lives could be destroyed.
Her cautious, quiet existence is disrupted when she falls for Sun, the charming son of an elite military family. Given the vast difference in their social backgrounds, romance between the two is unthinkable. And dangerous. But their mutual attraction is fierce and undeniable. At first Jing tries to resist but Sun pursues her relentlessly, even after she returns to the city. Their romance blossoms - pure, passionate and in secret. No one must know - least of all Jing's mother whose only desire is that her daughter ensures a future for herself at all cost.
Then Sun disappears. When he reenters her life, something has changed. Jing is forced to confront her ideas about love, honor and loyalty... to decide what she truly believes in. Their lives will change forever.

Production

Country(ies) : JAPAN

AUSTRALIA SBS TELEVISION
HONG KONG EDKO FILMS LTD
SWITZERLAN SSNI SA


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