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Release Date:
22 January 2003 (France)
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Plot:
Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world. Full summary » | Add synopsis »
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Best film yet this year
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Cast
(in credits order) | Wei Wei Zhao | ... | Bin Bin |
| Qiong Wu | ... | Xiao Ji |
 | Tao Zhao | ... | Qiao Qiao |
| Qing Feng Zhou | ... | Yuan Yuan |
| Hongwei Wang | ... | Xiao Wu |
| Ru Bai | ... | Bin Bin's mother |
| Xi An Liu | ... | Xiao Ji's father |
| Shou Lin Xu | ... | Sister Zhu |
| Ren Ai Jun | ... | Hairdresser |
| Dao Xiao | ... | Mr. Ren |
| Zi Ying | ... | Concubine |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Zhubin Li | ... | Qiao San |
| Ai Jun Ren | ... | The Hairdresser |
| Limin Wang | ... | The Karaoke Customer (as Wang Li Min) |
| Zhang Ke Jia | ... | Man singing in street (uncredited) |
| Juan Antonio Samaranch | ... | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Directed by | |||
| Zhang Ke Jia | (as ZhangKe Jia) | ||
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| Zhang Ke Jia | ||
Produced by | |||
| Shozo Ichiyama | .... | producer | |
| Kit Ming Li | .... | producer | |
| Masayuki Mori | .... | executive producer | |
| Hengameh Panahi | .... | executive producer | |
| Paul Yi | .... | executive producer | |
Cinematography by | |||
| Nelson Yu Lik-wai | (as Lik Wai Yu) | ||
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| Keung Chow | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Jing Dong Liang | |||
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| Jing Dong Liang | |||
Sound Department | |||
| Bing Han | .... | sound editor | |
| Yang Zhang | .... | sound | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Serge Anthony | .... | color grader | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- A-Film Distribution (2003) (Netherlands) (theatrical) (for)
- Filmmuseum Distributie (2003) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
- Ad Vitam Distribution (France)
- Artificial Eye (UK)
- Bitters End
- Filmfreak Distributie (200?) (Netherlands) (video)
- New Yorker Films (2003) (USA) (subtitled)
- Office Kitano
- Prodimag (2007) (Spain) (DVD)
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Also Known As:
"Ren xiao yao" - South Korea (original title)
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France:113 min (Cannes Film Festival) | Japan:112 min
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Mandarin title refers to a song by Richie RenSee more »
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Referenced in "Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Episode #2.15" (2011)See more »
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I'm confused as to why people would still give the pleasant peasant fables of Zhang Yimou house-room now we're offered a view of intense, complex, and contemporary Chinese cinema like this. I adored the extreme negativity of this film's most repetitive moments: Xiao Ji getting slapped about the face ("having a good time?" "yes" "having a good time?" "yes" "having a good time?" "yes" "having a good time?" "yes"...) or trying repeatedly to drive up a slight slope on his motorbike. The very repeatability of film seems to highlight the way that only this silly, essentially boring medium gets at what's going on when stuff happens, in capitalist China as well as at home...