I was lucky enough to see this on the big screen (thank you, Nickelodeon in Santa Cruz, CA!). Fell in love with it and couldn't wait for it to hit DVD format. Fast forward a couple years and I rented it for relatives. Alas, it was drained of most of its color and the subtitles were so pale and ruined with gaps you couldn't read them. Given how simple the story is you know they had to be bad if it interfered with that, which it did.
Does anyone know if there's since been a better transfer? This movie sure deserves a good presentation. I saw this at a film festival and it's still one of the few non-documentary Chinese productions I've found that illustrate something of the lives of people in rural China, as opposed to the urbanized views we get on the news.
Does anyone know if there's since been a better transfer? This movie sure deserves a good presentation. I saw this at a film festival and it's still one of the few non-documentary Chinese productions I've found that illustrate something of the lives of people in rural China, as opposed to the urbanized views we get on the news.