“A Sweet Journey”
Guizhou province, southern China, spring 1980. Schoolboys Zhao Qiangsheng (Ma Guoxing) and Fulai (Wang Shibin), who've spent their whole life in a remote village, hear from a PLA soldier about a thing called a "city", full of people, buildings and cars, three mountains away. Full of curiosity, and with the orphaned Fulai fed up with being passed around the community, the two set off to reach it when their school is closed for five days...
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Cast
6 people
Zhang Hanyu
Long Jianguo
Known for
The Great Wall
Operation Mekong
Yu Na
Ding Xiaoya
Also in
Turbulence of the Mu Clan
Journey to the West
Xiao Jian
Monkey Ma
Known for
My Own Swordsman
Qianyuan Wang
Zhao Qiangsheng
Also in
Only Child
Xu Yukun
[Production team leader]
Known for
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Asano Nagahide
Known for
City of Life and Death
Railroad Tigers
Yan Ran Director · Lu Jia'na Editor Chen Lili Editor
Worldwide gross $10M · Budget $1M · First release March 8, 2011
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Budget
$1,000,000
Worldwide gross
$10,000,000
Gross vs. budget
10.0×
Production
珠江电影制片
Production
China
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Languages
Original title
雲下的日子
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Chinese
Release dates
China · March 8, 2011
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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