Sunflower (2005)

Original title

向日葵

Directed by

Zhang Yang

Genre

drama film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

2h 09m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A husband and wife raise their son in Beijing over three decades. The story follows the family's changing relationships as the son grows into adulthood.

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What happens

Sunflower (Chinese: 向日葵; pinyin: Xiàngrìkúi) is a 2005 drama film directed by Zhang Yang. Zhang's fourth film, Sunflower is a joint production of Ming Productions, the Beijing Film Studio (as part of the China Film Corporation's 4th Production Company) and the Hong Kong subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Fortissimo Films. It was distributed by Fortissimo Films and New Yorker Films (US theatrical distribution). The film stars Sun Haiying and Joan Chen as a husband and wife, and the actors Zhang Fan, Gao Ge and Wang Haidi as their son over the course of 30 years. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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