Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China, Hong Kong SAR China, United States
Why tonight?
- In Chinese — subtitles on.
The story
Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.
- class
- village
- mayor
- mountain
- promise
- teacher
- money
- food
- chalk
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Sun Zhimei — Sun Zhimei
- Feng Yuying — TV Receptionist
- Li Fanfan — TV Host
- Zhang Yichang — Mr. Zhang
- Zhanqing Xu — Brick Factory Owner
- Liu Hanzhi — Zhang Huike's Mother
- Ma Guolin — Bus Station Man
- Wu Wanlu — TV Station Manager
- Ru Liu — Train Station Announcer
- Wang Shulan — Stationery Store Clerk
- Fu Xinmin — TV Station Director
- Directed
- Zhang Yimou
- Written
- Xiangsheng Shi
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 196 ratings
- Studio
- Guangxi Film Studio, Bejing New Picture Distribution Company, Film Productions Asia, Columbia Pictures, CP Film Production Asia
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
