Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China, Hong Kong SAR China
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Chinese — subtitles on.
The story
Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
- child abuse
- china
- gambling
- gambling debt
- cultural revolution
- chinese civil war
- shadow puppet
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Jiang Wu — Wan Erxi
- Ni Dahong — Long'er
- Liu Tianchi — Xu Fengxia
- Zhang Lu — Young Fengxia
- Dong Fei — Xu Youqing
- Huang Zongluo — Fugui's Dad
- Liu Yanjin — Fugui's Mom
- Li Lianyi — Sgt. Lao Quan
- Su Yan — Obstetric Nurse
- Zhao Yu-Xiu — Physician Wang
- Xiao Jie — Young Fengxia
- Directed
- Zhang Yimou
Production
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 389 ratings
- Studio
- Shanghai Film Studio, Era International Ltd
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.
