Thirteen Princess Trees (2006)

Original title

十三棵泡桐

Directed by

Lü Yue

Genre

coming-of-age film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A tomboyish student named Feng navigates friendships and romance at a high school in Chengdu. She begins a relationship with a jock named Taotao, but her feelings shift when a new student from Beijing arrives.

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What happens

Thirteen Princess Trees (Chinese: 十三棵泡桐; Chinese: 十三棵泡桐; pinyin: shí sān kē pào tóng) is a 2006 Chinese film directed by cinematographer-cum-director Lü Yue and based on the novel Blade vs. Blade by He Dacao. The film, Lü's third as director was shot on digital video primarily in Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province. Thirteen Princess Trees was produced by Beijing Golden Skyway Media Company and the Changchun Film Studio. The film follows several disaffected youth in the fictional Thirteen Princess High School in Chengdu. Feng (Liu Xin), the film's protagonist, is a short-haired tomboy who has a love affair with the jock, Taotao (Duan Bowen). With the arrival of Bao (Zhao Mengqiao), a student from Beijing, Feng finds herself gravitating to the new presence. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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