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22 November 2001 (Australia)
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Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology...
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Jared Harris | ... | Raymond Wallace |
 | Yu Xia | ... | Liu Jinglun (Liu Zhonglun) |
| Yufei Xing | ... | Ling |
| Peiqi Liu | ... | Master Ren (Ren JingFeng) |
| Liping Lü | ... | Madame Ren |
| Jingming Wang | ... | Old Liu |
| Yusheng Li | ... | Lord Tan (Tan Xinpei) |
| Yukui Zhang | ... | Lao Chang |
| Chuang Cheng | ... | Mi Hu |
| Zhongwei Zheng | ... | Fu Guan |
| Qi Mu | ... | Jewelry Tower |
| Qingzhuo Fang | ... | Widow Jiang |
| Bin Li | ... | Empress Ci Xi |
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Xi yang jing (China: Mandarin title)
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Rated PG for brief mild language.
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Canada:116 min (DVD version) | Japan:115 min
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References Chang ban po (1905)
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A very sweet movie about a young Chinese man enamored of western technology and an Englishman trying to make his fortune showing movies in China. It's a very interesting story that is presumably based on true events, although I'm assuming it's more fantasy than real. It's got a fairy tale quality you rarely get in real life, and it's also got 8 people credited for the script, so they must have been making up stuff right and left.
This is a very likable movie that conveys how magical film was to people who had never seen it before. It is not an especially deep movie, touching briefly on the loss of tradition and the encroachment of western culture but mainly just being a pleasant little movie. It's actually a movie I enjoyed very much that is already beginning to disappear from my mind 15 minutes after seeing it. Light as a soufflé, but I enjoyed every minute.