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Duckweed (2014)

Duckweed poster
Original title
后会无期
Directed by
Han Han
Genre
comedy film, adventure film, road movie, romance film
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
IIA
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 96 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two young men leave their small island home to travel across mainland China. They meet different people and learn things about themselves along the way.

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What happens

The Continent (simplified Chinese: 后会无期; traditional Chinese: 後會無期) is a 2014 Chinese road comedy film written and directed by Han Han. It stars Feng Shaofeng and Chen Bolin as inexperienced young men living on an island in the East China Sea as they journey across mainland China. The film was released in China on July 24, 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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