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CHINA · 1999

The Road Home

Zhang Yimou
Chinese Fifth Generation family legacy love and sacrifice loss and grief rural life memory and nostalgia
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Synopsis

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

Year1999
CountryChina
DirectorZhang Yimou
MovementChinese Fifth Generation
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