Sunflower

Sunflower (2005)

— 129 min - Drama, Foreign, Romance - 10 September 2005

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Sunflower is the story of the Zhang family in Beijing father, mother and son across three decades, centering on the tensions and misunderstandings between father and son. Nine-year-old Xiangyang is having the time of his life, free of adult supervision until the day he meets the father he can hardly remember. Having spent years away, he returns with strong ideas about his son learning to draw. But Xiangyang chafes under his father's constant rules and soon stages his own revolution against the lessons enforced.

Director:  Zhang Yang

Writers:  Shangjun Cai, Xin Huo, Zhang Yang

Stars:  Joan Chen, Zhang Fan, Ge Gao, Wang Haidi, Liang Jing, Zifeng Liu, Li Bin

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Sunflower is the story of the Zhang family in Beijing father, mother and son across three decades, centering on the tensions and misunderstandings between father and son. Nine-year-old Xiangyang is having the time of his life, free of adult supervision until the day he meets the father he can hardly remember. Having spent years away, he returns with strong ideas about his son learning to draw. But Xiangyang chafes under his father's constant rules and soon stages his own revolution against the lessons enforced.

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Collections: Zhang Yang

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Genres: Drama, Foreign, Romance

Details

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Country:   China

Language:  普通话

Release Date:  10 September 2005

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Company Credits

Production Companies:  China Film Group Corporation (CFGC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:  2 h 09 min

Sunflower is the story of the Zhang family in Beijing father, mother and son across three decades, centering on the tensions and misunderstandings between father and son.

Sunflower (向日葵; Xiàng rì kúi) is a 2005 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yang. Zhang’s fourth film, Sunflower is a joint production of Ming Productions, the Beijing Film Studio (as part of the China Film Corporation’s 4th Production Company) and the Hong Kong subsidiary of the Netherlands-based Fortissimo Films. It was distributed by Fortissimo Films and New Yorker Films (US theatrical distribution).

The film stars Sun Haiying and Joan Chen as a husband and wife, and the actors Zhang Fan, Gao Ge and Wang Haidi as their son over the course of 30 years.