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

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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