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      The Road Home

      1999, Drama, 1h 30m

      80 Reviews 5,000+ Ratings

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      Beautifully filmed, The Road Home is a simple touching and tender love story. Read critic reviews

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      Movie Info

      City businessman Luo Yusheng returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his father, the village teacher. Before returning to the city, Yusheng symbolically honors his father's dearest wish: he spends one day teaching in the village school.

      • Rating: G

      • Genre: Drama

      • Original Language: Chinese

      • Director: Yimou Zhang

      • Producer: Yu Zhao

      • Writer: Shi Bao

      • Release Date (Theaters):  original

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $1.3M

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

      • Production Co: Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Guangxi Film Studios

      • Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby SR

      • Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

      Cast & Crew

      Zhang Ziyi
      Honglei Sun
      Yulian Zhao
      Bin Li
      Guifa Chang
      Qi Liu
      Bo Ji
      Zhongxi Zhang
      Weiping Zhang
      Yu Zhao
      Bao San
      Yong Hou
      Zhai Ru
      Juiping Cao
      Huamiao Tong
      Dong Xie

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      • Sep 07, 2016
        Finally got round to watching this 15-year-old film. Very touching, well-directed, sumptuously filmed story of young love. If you are tired of seeing Chinese films that bring out the worst in people (corruption, abuse of power, greed, injustice), then you should watch this. I found the plot of The Story of Qiu Ju???????a bit more interesting though, but The Road Home is more beautiful to watch. Zhang Ziyi is very lovable here.
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      • Jul 25, 2012
        Another gorgeous and well layered epic from Yimou. Zhang brings out the colour in ordinary folk and make them people that we would want to encounter in our lives.
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      • Feb 27, 2011
        Chinese drama. Man returns to childhood village to bury father who died in nearby hospital, but mother wants the coffin brought back by foot across the mountains first. Uh oh... long film about long walk with everyone reminiscing, squabbling, developing and reconciling, cue poignant music and fade. But no, film then cuts back to the early days when mother and father first met and shows the simple story of them falling in love instead. Lovely. <img src="http://movie-sakura.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/images/the_road_home005.jpg">
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      • Feb 21, 2010
        A true Romantic Film Here might even be considered a Chick Flick by some. Its about a man in China who is called home to bury his father, who was the village school teacher, so begins the novel as to how he met the man's mother who was a village girl who fell in love with the teacher at first sight. Not the typical American Love story, its better then that. Got to give it 5 Stars,
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