Coming Home (2014 film)
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| Traditional | 歸來 |
| Simplified | 归来 |
| Directed by | Zhang Yimou |
| Produced by |
William Kong Zhao Zhang |
| Screenplay by | Zou Jingzhi |
| Based on |
The Criminal Lu Yanshi by Geling Yan |
| Starring |
Chen Daoming Gong Li Zhang Huiwen |
| Music by | Qigang Chen |
| Cinematography | Xiaoding Zhao |
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Production
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Le Vision Pictures
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| Distributed by | Edko Films (Hong Kong) GAGA (Japan) Golden Village Pictures (Singapore) Sony Pictures Classics (USA) |
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Running time
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111 minutes |
| Country | China |
| Language | Mandarin |
| Box office | US$49.7 million (international) |
Coming Home (simplified Chinese: 归来; traditional Chinese: 歸來; pinyin: guīlái, literally The Return) is a 2014 Chinese historical drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Chen Daoming and Gong Li. It was released in the US September 11, 2015 and first shown to the public on the 20th May 2014 at the Cannes Film Festival.
The story is adapted from the novel, The Criminal Lu Yanshi (陆犯焉识; 陸犯焉識) written by novelist Geling Yan.
Lu Yanshi (陆焉识; 陸焉識, "Yanshi" literally means "how to recognize") was a professor before being sent to the labor camp (laogai, literally "reform through labor") during the Cultural Revolution. He escaped from the labor camp in Xining to meet his long-missed wife Feng Wanyu (冯婉瑜; 馮婉瑜) and daughter Dandan (Chinese: 丹丹). However, the police were already waiting outside the house to arrest him.
Dandan, who was then a teenage ballerina, could not play the leading role in Red Detachment of Women due to her father's outlaw status. Under the temptation of regaining the leading role, Dandan revealed her parents' secret meeting plan to the police. The meeting ended with the capture of Lu but Dandan still didn't get the leading role. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Lu came home only to find his broken family, his wife suffering from amnesia and his daughter working as textile worker. Under the shock of a former official's sexual harassment, his wife sometimes recognized him as Officer "Fang" instead of being her husband.
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