A Japanese father travels to China s Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a famous folk-opera star. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles is a 2005 Chinese Chinese-language Drama film featuring Ken Takakura, Shinobu Terajima, Kiichi Nakai, Ken Nakamoto, Jiamin Li, Jiang Wen and Zhenbo Yang. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles was Produced by Xiu Jian, Zhang Weiping and Bill Kong. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles is written by Yimou Zhang, Jingzhi Zou, Bin Wang and Zou Jingzhi and it is directed by Yimou Zhang, Zhang Yimou and Yasuo Furuhata. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles was released on 22nd December 2005 in Mandarin and Japanese languages and takes a screen time of 109 minutes. The motion picture made a box office gross of $3 million. Cinematography was done by Zhao Xiaoding and Daisaku Kimura and editing by Cheng Long and Akimasa Kawashima. The music was composed by Guo Wenjing.
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Jini Score 9.5/10
Critics Score 85%
Rating 7.5/10
Jini Score 9.5%
Critics Score 85
Rating 7.5
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Release
Date22 DEC 2005
Language
Mandarin, Japanese
Genre
Drama
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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Reviews and Ratings
Average Review Rating : positive
Positive Review Rating : 85%
Marjorie Baumgarten
Its the kind of story that shows more than it tells, a story thats forged in the spaces that exist in between characters and spaces. ( Read More )
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Zhangs direction of this character driven drama is nicely paced with just the right mixture of endearing characters, environments, and surprises. ( Read More )
Maria Garcia
Despite the wonderful charm of this peek at modern day China, which isnt modern at all, and the sort of masterly filmmaking one expects of Zhang, the director nevertheless fails to overcome a script that ignores the backstory of the characters, and that agonizingly details minor subplots. ( Read More )
Ty Burr
The film nevertheless gets sidetracked by the landscapes and by a portrait of rural China that feels gentle to the point of harmlessness. ( Read More )
Robert Koehler
No film shows this more clearly than Zhangs latest, Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, a terribly sentimentalized account of a Japanese fathers quest to understand what captured the interest and imagination of his estranged son. ( Read More )