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Youth Never Returns (2015)

Youth Never Returns poster
Original title
既然青春留不住
Directed by
Meng Tian
Genre
romantic comedy film
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man and a woman meet and fall in love. Their relationship plays out over ten years.

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What happens

Youth Never Returns is a 2015 Chinese romantic comedy film based by the novel of Megan Tay & directed by Tian Meng and produced by Manfred Wong, starring Hans Zhang and Joe Chen. The film is an adaptation of Gu Wei's novel of the same name, and tells the love story of between two individuals that span across ten years. Principal photography started on August 25, 2014, in Jialing River. The film premiered in Beijing International Film Festival in April 2015 with wide-release in China on October 23, 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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