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Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology... more | add synopsisAwards:
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Sweet fable moreCast
(Credited cast) | Jared Harris | ... | Raymond Wallace |
 | Yu Xia | ... | Liu Jinglun (Liu Zhonglun) |
| Yufei Xing | ... | Ling |
| Peiqi Liu | ... | Master Ren (Ren JingFeng) |
| Liping Lu | ... | 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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| Fang Qing Zhou | ... | Widow Jiang |
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Rated PG for brief mild language.Parents Guide:
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Canada:116 min (DVD version) | Japan:115 minMOVIEmeter: 
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This looks a lot like the Once upon a Time in China series and is set in the same never-never-land of red and gold and processions and dragon masks. In fact, it plays like a footnote to those films. I imagine a lot of Chinese must object to the promulgation of such a touristy, quaintly exotic view of their country, but as one of the Westerners at whom it is aimed, I find it glamorous rather than patronizing. It is a good setting for this fable about the introduction of movies to China. Movie fables always look false to me because the primal love and awe with which audiences are shown responding to the magical images on the screen are primarily a moviemaker's self-inflating fantasy, but this movie has a sweetness and directness that enable it to carry off the trick. It is like a good children's story. Of the two leads, the British one is okay, but the Chinese one is truly likable, and as a result so is the film.