If swapping your life would mean swapping out your family members, would you still be willing? After a blind date with Jin Hao (Zhang Xiaofei), Zhong Da (Lei Jiayin) accidentally switches bodies with Lu Xiaogu (Zhang Youhao), a young fella with a crush on Jin Hao; while simultaneously exchanging family members by mistake. This sets off a strange “body swap” journey that will make you laugh and cry …
(Source: Translated from Douban)
This comedy is director Su Lun’s second feature following 2018’s fantasy romance, How Long Will I Love U. It is the second movie in the January 22, 2023 Chinese New Year line-up to feature Lei Jiayin, who was also the male lead in How Long Will I Love U. Actress Zhang Xiaofei was in 2021’s mega blockbuster Hi, Mom for which she won a Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress. Other cast members include Liu Mintao, Sha Yi, Wu Yanshu and Yang Enyou.
(Source: Translated from Douban)
This comedy is director Su Lun’s second feature following 2018’s fantasy romance, How Long Will I Love U. It is the second movie in the January 22, 2023 Chinese New Year line-up to feature Lei Jiayin, who was also the male lead in How Long Will I Love U. Actress Zhang Xiaofei was in 2021’s mega blockbuster Hi, Mom for which she won a Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress. Other cast members include Liu Mintao, Sha Yi, Wu Yanshu and Yang Enyou.
- 1/13/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Universal’s keenly anticipated animation “Minions: The Rise Of Gru” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £10.4 million (12.5 million), according to numbers released by Comscore.
Warner Bros,’ “Elvis,” which had debuted in pole position last week, slid down a place to second with £2.9 million for a total of £10.1 million. Paramount’s Tom Cruise vehicle “Top Gun: Maverick” continued its strong flight at the U.K. box office with £2.6 million in third place and now has a total of £67.9 million after six weekends.
In fourth place, Universal’s “Jurassic World: Dominion” collected £1.8 million in its fourth weekend for a total of £30.4 million. Rounding off the top five was Disney’s “Lightyear” with £864,035 in its third weekend for a total of £8.5 million.
Picturehouse Entertainment’s Cannes and multiple Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards winner “Nitram” debuted in 10th place with £41,909.
In another reminder of the territory’s continuing appetite for documentaries,...
Warner Bros,’ “Elvis,” which had debuted in pole position last week, slid down a place to second with £2.9 million for a total of £10.1 million. Paramount’s Tom Cruise vehicle “Top Gun: Maverick” continued its strong flight at the U.K. box office with £2.6 million in third place and now has a total of £67.9 million after six weekends.
In fourth place, Universal’s “Jurassic World: Dominion” collected £1.8 million in its fourth weekend for a total of £30.4 million. Rounding off the top five was Disney’s “Lightyear” with £864,035 in its third weekend for a total of £8.5 million.
Picturehouse Entertainment’s Cannes and multiple Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards winner “Nitram” debuted in 10th place with £41,909.
In another reminder of the territory’s continuing appetite for documentaries,...
- 7/5/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Death is literally the beginning in the cross-generational relationship drama Love Education, which closes the 2017 Busan International Film Festival today. In depicting a quintessentially Chinese family dispute about burial sites that sets free unspoken sorrows building across half a century, it reveals how the idea and expression of love have evolved in a vastly changed Middle Kingdom.
The movie opens with an aged lady on her dying bed. As per the long-standing tradition of cinematic romanticism, the last flashes of consciousness play out in a dreamy, amorous sequence of remembered bliss with her white-haired beau. Somewhat more surprisingly, no profound parting words seem to come out of her trembling mouth when daughter Huiying (Sylvia Chang), son-in-law Xiaoping (Zhuangzhuang Tian) and granddaughter Weiwei (Yueting Lang) gather around to send grandma off in a moment of heightened sentimentality.
This initially insignificant detail proves to be a source of intrigue later on. Because,...
The movie opens with an aged lady on her dying bed. As per the long-standing tradition of cinematic romanticism, the last flashes of consciousness play out in a dreamy, amorous sequence of remembered bliss with her white-haired beau. Somewhat more surprisingly, no profound parting words seem to come out of her trembling mouth when daughter Huiying (Sylvia Chang), son-in-law Xiaoping (Zhuangzhuang Tian) and granddaughter Weiwei (Yueting Lang) gather around to send grandma off in a moment of heightened sentimentality.
This initially insignificant detail proves to be a source of intrigue later on. Because,...
- 10/21/2017
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
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