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Gui lai (2014)

PG-13  |   |  Drama  |  16 May 2014 (China)
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Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.

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Feng Wanyu
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Lu Yanshi
Huiwen Zhang ...
Dan Dan, the daughter
Tao Guo ...
Officer Liu
Ni Yan ...
Officer Li
Chun Li ...
Cui Meifang
Jia-yi Zhang ...
Doctor Dai
Peiqi Liu ...
Officer Liu
Jiali Ding ...
Mr. Fang's wife
Bai Qing Xin ...
Officer Ballet School
Feng Zu ...
Officer Deng
Xiaoyi Chen ...
Gong Suzhen
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Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) and Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize Lu, she patiently waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu Yanshi determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife's memory. Written by Anonymous

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$26,361 (USA) (11 September 2015)

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$202,494 (USA) (2 October 2015)
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Excellent movie, poor IMDb listing
23 September 2015 | by (San Francisco, California) – See all my reviews

I'm disappointed in IMDb's tone-deafness in listing the Chinese names in reverse order, Westernized with family names last. For example, world famous, remarkable actress Gong Li is inexplicably listed here as Li Gong.

The film itself, by great director Zhang Yimou (not Yimou Zhang), is a powerfully intimate story of a family broken by the Cultural Revolution. It offers just enough subtle orientation to facts and culture to draw me into the core of its story about three people struggling to sort our pain and confusion. It's a very beautiful and painful film.


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