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How Is Your Fish Today? (2006)

How Is Your Fish Today? poster
Original title
今天的鱼怎么样?
Directed by
Xiaolu Guo
Genre
drama film
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
1h 23m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A frustrated writer works on a story about a man named Lin Hao. The film follows both the writer and his subject as their lives connect in modern China.

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What happens

How Is Your Fish Today?, also known as Jin Tian De Yu Zen Me Yang?, is a 2007 Chinese film written by Xiaolu Guo and Hui Rao. It was directed by Guo. The film is a drama set in modern China, focusing on the intertwined stories of two main characters; a frustrated writer (Hui Rao) and the subject of his latest work, Lin Hao (Zijiang Yang). How Is Your Fish Today won 4 international awards and was well received by critics, but was not commercially successful. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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