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24 City ()

Er shi si cheng ji (original title)
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When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.
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Gu Minhua / Xiao Hua
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Hao Dali
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Su Na

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Jia Zhang-ke ... (as Zhangke Jia)

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Yongming Zhai ... (writer)
 
Jia Zhang-ke ... (writer) (as Zhangke Jia)

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Shôzô Ichiyama ... producer (as Shozo Ichiyama)
Chow Keung ... executive producer
Satoshi Kubo ... co-producer
Ning Ma ... co-producer
Masayuki Mori ... co-producer
Zhonglun Ren ... executive producer
Yûji Sadai ... co-producer
Yong Tang ... executive producer
Hong Wang ... producer
Pengle Xu ... co-producer
Takio Yoshida ... co-producer
Jia Zhang-ke ... producer (as Zhangke Jia)
Jiong Zhu ... co-producer

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Yoshihiro Hanno
Giong Lim

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Yu Wang
Nelson Lik-wai Yu

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Kong Jinglei
Jinlei Kong ... (as Jing Lei Kong)
Xudong Lin

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Qiang Liu

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Liu Qiang ... production design

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Zhang Yang ... sound designer
Yang Zhang ... sound

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Feng Hao ... set lighting
Nelson Yu Lik-Wai ... director of photography
Nelson Lik-Wai Yu ... director of photography
Wang Yu ... director of photography

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Lim Giong ... music
Yoshihiro Hanno ... music

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Richard Lormand ... publicist: international
Tony Rayns ... English subtitles

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Plot Summary

Change and a city in China. In Chengdu, factory 420 is being pulled down to make way for multi-story buildings with luxury flats. Scenes of factory operations, of the workforce, and of buildings stripped bare and then razed, are inter-cut with workers who were born in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s telling their stories - about the factory, which manufactured military aircraft, and about their work and their lives. A middle-aged man visits his mentor, now elderly; a woman talks of being a 19-year-old beauty there and ending up alone. The film concludes with two young people talking, each the child of workers, each relaying a story of one visit to a factory. Times change. Written by

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Also Known As
  • 二十四城记 (China, Mandarin title)
  • 二十四城記 (Hong Kong, Cantonese title)
  • 四川のうた (Japan, Japanese title)
  • Shisen No Uta (Japan)
  • 24 City (United States)
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  • 112 min
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Trivia During a press conference at the 61st Cannes Film Festival for the film, Jia Zhang-ke, Joan Chen and Tao Zhao observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the 2008 devastating earthquake in China. The film was shot in Chengdu, in Sichuan province where the earthquake struck. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Episode #2.15 (2011). See more »
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