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Director: Zhang Yimou

Nickname: Lao Mouzi, loosely meaning "old schemer/strategist" Trivia: Attended the Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China
Zhang Yimou is part of China's Fifth Generation of filmmakers, who began making films after the Cultural Revolution. Others from this group include Chen Kaige and Zhang Junzhao. Dated actress Li Gong. [1987-1995]. "For thousands of years, there's been a tradition of teaching us in China to think in terms of the collective experience, so...

• Genre: Drama

• Budget: 58m Yuan/US$ 7.2m

• Date of Premiere: December 2005

Highlights

• A Father's Long Voyage in Search of His Soul

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles is one man's journey in Southwest China's Yunnan Province. It is also a journey to find his soul.

• Zhang Yimou Rides onto the Road of Another Success
Lijiang, Yunnan: The premiere of "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Qianli Zou Danqi)," the latest motion picture of Zhang Yimou, was held on Friday in Lijiang in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, where the movie's story takes place.

Lineup

• Kiichi Nakai
Date of birth: 18 September 1961, Tokyo, Japan. Costaring in Chinese blockbuster "Warriors of Heaven and Earth(2003)".

• Ken Takakura

Birth name: Oda Toshimasa Trivia: Known as "The Japanese Clint Eastwood.

Plot

Set in the 1920's, Riding alone for Thousands of Miles tells a story of a Japanese man (Takakura Ken), accompanies his dying son to learn the local opera in China's Yunnan, where they meets a local girl.

The girl will be played by Jiang Wen, a graduate student from Beijing Film Academy. Literally, Qian Li Zou Dan Ji means "lone ride over a thousand lis" (1 "li" equals to 0.31 mile).

Just like the title of Zhang's last film, Shi Mian Mai Fu (English title: House Of Flying Daggers), which means "ambushed from ten sides", Qian Li Zou Dan Ji has a metaphor meaning as well.

The film is budgeted at US$ 7.2 million, much smaller than Zhang's last two films, Hero and House Of Flying Daggers.

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