Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles is a 2005 Chinese drama film directed by Zhang Yimou that follows an elderly Japanese man's emotional journey to fulfill his estranged son's documentary project in rural China.

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instanceOf Chinese film
drama film
film
ageRating PG-13
cinematographyBy Zhao Xiaoding
countryOfOrigin China
director Zhang Yimou
distributor China Film Group
Sony Pictures Classics
editedBy Meng Peicong
filmingLocation Yunnan, China
linked to: Yunnan Province
genre drama
hasChineseTitle 千里走单骑
hasIMDbId tt0439572
hasJapaneseTitle 千里走单骑
hasMainCharacter Gouichi Takata
inspiredBy traditional Chinese story of a long journey for a friend
mainCharacterNationality Japanese
musicBy Kagawa Shigeru
narrativeFocus emotional journey of an elderly father
originalLanguage Japanese
Mandarin Chinese
partOfFilmographyOf Zhang Yimou
plotSummary An elderly Japanese man travels to rural China to complete his estranged son’s documentary project.
productionCompany China Film Group Corporation
releaseCountry China
Japan
releaseDate 2005-12-22
releaseEvent premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival
releaseYear 2005
runtimeMinutes 107
screenwriter Zhang Yimou
Zou Jingzhi
setting rural China
starredActor Ken Takakura
Kiichi Nakai
Li Jiamin
Shinobu Terajima
subjectMatter Peking opera
documentary filmmaking
theme cross-cultural understanding
father–son relationship
reconciliation
titleLanguage English

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Zhang Yimou notableWork Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Zou Jingzhi notableWork Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Zou Jingzhi wroteScreenplayFor Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles