Better Days (2019)
- Original title
- 少年的你
- Directed by
- Derek Tsang
- Genre
- teen film, romantic drama film
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Runtime
- 2h 15m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 8.1 of 10 from 562 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A high school girl faces relentless bullying and pressure from her college entrance exams. Her life changes when she forms an unlikely bond with a teenage street thug.
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What happens
Better Days (Chinese: 少年的你; pinyin: Shàonián de nǐ) is a 2019 drama film directed by Derek Tsang and written by Lam Wing Sum, Li Yuan and Xu Yimeng. Based on the Chinese young adult novel In His Youth, In Her Beauty by Jiu Yuexi, the film stars Zhou Dongyu and Jackson Yee, and follows a high school girl struggling with severe bullying and the pressure of upcoming college entrance exams, whose life becomes intertwined with that of a teenage street thug. Better Days was released on 25 October 2019 in China. One of the most highly anticipated Chinese films in 2019 due to its lead actors' immense popularity, the film became a pop culture phenomenon in China as well as a box office hit, grossing a total of US$230.1 million. It was also a critical success, and was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, as the official entry from Hong Kong. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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