The Sun Also Rises (2007 film)
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| Traditional | 太陽照常升起 |
| Simplified | 太阳照常升起 |
| Mandarin | tài yáng zhào cháng shēng qǐ |
| Directed by | Jiang Wen |
| Produced by | Jiang Wen Albert Lee |
| Written by | Jiang Wen Shu Ping Guo Shixing Ye Mi |
| Starring |
Jaycee Chan Joan Chen Jiang Wen Anthony Wong Zhou Yun |
| Music by | Joe Hisaishi |
| Cinematography |
Pin Bing Lee Yang Tao Zhao Fei |
| Edited by | Zhang Yifan |
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| Country | China |
| Language | Mandarin |
The Sun Also Rises (Chinese: 太阳照常升起; pinyin: Tàiyáng zhàocháng shēng-qǐ) is a 2007 film directed, produced and co-written by Chinese director Jiang Wen starring Joan Chen, Anthony Wong, Jaycee Chan, and Jiang Wen himself. This movie is the polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert. This movie was screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival and nominated for Golden Lion but lost to Ang Lee's historical thriller Lust, Caution. This film also premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, and was nominated for Achievement in Cinematography at the 2007 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
The movie details four interconnected stories.
In the first story, madness and mischief as a single mother (Zhou Yun) drives her devoted son (Jaycee Chan) to distraction with her daredevil antics in pursuit of tranquility. The agile mom climbs tall trees and stands perilously astride a small earthen raft on the river. She treasures a beautiful pair of slippers that she is forever losing, and the son fears that, one day, the footwear will remain while his mother disappears.
In the second story, on a college campus, two old friends find their friendship tested by rivalry over a woman. Doctor Lin (Joan Chen) is the mistress of Old Tang (Jiang Wen), but she finds herself drawn to teacher Liang (Anthony Wong), who is catnip to beautiful women. When Liang is accused of groping women at a campus gathering, Lin offers her rear end behind a curtain to determine whose was the guilty hand.
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