The road home
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia presents GuangXi Film Studio; producer, Zhao Yu; screenplay writer, Bao Shi; director, Zhang Yimou
- Resource Type:
- DVD Video
- Creation:
- Created or produced in 1999
- Publication:
- Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Classics, [2001]
- Distribution:
- Culver City, Calif. : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
- Copyright:
- ©2000
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- Summary:
- As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent's courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother's village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.
- Contributors:
- Language Notes:
- Mandarin or French dialogue, English or French subtitles.
- Related Works:
- Motion picture adaptation of: Remembrance [by Shi, B.]
- Subjects:
- System Details:
- DVD, Dolby digital 5.1, digitally mastered audio & anamorphic video.
- Performers:
- Cast: Zhang Ziyi, Sun Hongiei, Zheng Hao, Zhao Yulian.
- Production Credits:
- Cinematographer, Hou Yong ; art director, Cao Juiping ; editor, Zhai Ru ; music, San Bao ; costume designer, Tong Huamiao.
- General Notes:
- Title from container.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999.
Based on the novel "Remembrance" by Bao Shi.
Special features: widescreen and full screen presentations; theatrical trailers; filmographies; interactive menus; scene selection.
Also issued on VHS.
Sundance Film Festival: 2001, Audience Award, World Cinema.
Berlin International Film Festival, 2000: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Competition; Silver Berlin Bear - Jury Grand Prix.
Purchase of this title funded by the Charn Uswachoke International Development Fund. - Audience:
- MPAA rating: G.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; polychrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file; DVD video; region 1
- Call Numbers:
- ROA 1999 DVD
- ISBNs:
- 0767863526
- Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 043396061712
Publisher Number, Sony Pictures Classics: 06171 - OCLC Numbers:
- 1053034683
48484249 [Invalid]
