Riding alone for thousands of miles

Resource Information

The work Riding alone for thousands of miles represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Riding alone for thousands of miles

Statement of responsibility

Beijing New Pictures Film Co. ; EDKO Film Ltd. ; Elite Group Entertainment ; Gilla Company ; Toho Company ; Zhang Yimou Studio ; produced by Yimou Zhang ; written by Yimou Zhang, Jingzhi Zou ; directed by Zhang Yimou

Title variation

Qian li zou dan qi

Contributor

• Beijing xin hua mian ying ye you xian gong si
• Gilla Company
• Ziliang, Chen
• Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
• Zhezhou, He
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Li, Bin Li
• Jiamin, Li
• Elite Group Entertainment (Firm)
• Takakura, Ken, 1931-2014
• Terajima, Shinobu, 1972-
• Jiang, Wen, 1963-
• Zhang, Yimou
• Nakai, Kiichi, 1961-
• Lin, Qiu
• Zhenbo, Yang
• Edko Films
• Jingzhi, Zou
• Zhang Yimou Studio (Firm)
• Nakamoto, Ken

Subject

• Videodiscs
• Melodrama -- Feature
• Fathers and sons -- Japan -- Drama
• Yunnan Sheng (China) -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Documentary films -- China | Yunnan Sheng -- Drama
• Yunnan Sheng (China) -- Drama
• Cancer -- Patients -- Japan -- Drama
• Feature films
• Action and adventure films
• Self-perception -- Drama
• Melodrama
• Foreign films

Genre

• Feature films
• Action and adventure films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Melodrama
• Drama
• Foreign films

Language

• chi
• jpn
• eng
• chi
• jpn
• chi

Summary

Takada is an aging Japanese fisherman who has been estranged from his son for many years. When the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. When his son refuses to see him, Rie gives him a videotape about the work his son was doing on a documentary film in a remote region of China's Yunnan province. Still troubled by the relationship, Takada decides to go to China and complete his son's work in part to develop an understanding of his son, and in part to do something for him. Once in China a series of obstacles and relationships bring him unexpectedly closer to both an understanding of himself and of his son

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Directors of photography, Daisaku Kimura, Xiaoding Zhao ; editor, Long Cheng ; music, Wenjing Guo ; production designer, Li Sun

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG; for mild thematic elements

Language note

Mandarin and Japanese dialogue, English subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1995.9.A3

LC item number

R53564 2007

PerformerNote

• Ken Takakura, Shinobu Terajima, Jiamin Li, Lin Qiu, Jiang Wen, Ken Nakamoto, Li Bin Li, Ziliang Chen, Zhezhou He, Zhenbo Yang
• Voice: Kiichi Nakai

Runtime

109

Target audience

general

Technique

live action