The Road Home
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Zhang Yimou
Zhang Ziyi
Zheng Hao
Zhao Yuelin
Li Bin
Chang Guifa
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
City businessman Luo Yusheng returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his father, the village teacher. He finds his elderly mother insisting that all traditional burial customs be observed. Observing his mother's intransigence, Yusheng thinks back over the stories he heard as a boy about his parents' courtship. His father, Luo Changyu, came to the village as the new teacher and soon fell in love with Zhao Di, considered the prettiest of local girls. But their developing romance was curtailed when Changyu was ordered back to the city and the would-be lovers were kept apart for more than two years. When finally reunited, they married and never separated again. Yusheng realizes that his mother's wishes for the funeral must be respected. On the day of the funeral more than 100 of Changyu's former pupils turn up to carry the coffin. Before returning to the city, Yusheng symbolically honors his father's dearest wish: he spends one day teaching in the village school.
Cast
Zhang Ziyi
Zheng Hao
Zhao Yuelin
Li Bin
Chang Guifa
Sung Wencheng
Liu Qi
Ji Bo
Zhang Zhongxi
Crew
Wang Bin
Yang Dandan
Wang Dong
Xie Dong
Xiao Han
Li Hong
Hao Jiankuo
Wang Licheng
Lin Qian
Zhong Qing
Zhai Ru
Yang Shaoyu
Ya Te
Zhang Weiping
Li Wen
Zhang Wenjun
Huang Xinming
Ma Ying
Hou Yong
Zhao Yu
Chen Zhigang
Hou Zhihua
Hu Zhong
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Film - World Cinema at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Silver Berlin Bear at the 2000 Belin International Film Festival.
Expanded Release in United States June 8, 2001
Released in United States 2001
Released in United States February 2000
Released in United States January 2001
Released in United States on Video November 27, 2001
Released in United States September 2000
Released in United States Summer May 25, 2001
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (in competition) February 9-20, 2000.
Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival (Closing Night) September 21-30, 2000.
Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) May 24 - June 17, 2001.
Director Zhang Yimou pulled this film, along with his "Not One Less" (China/1998), from the 1999 Cannes Film Festival when a festival committee member criticised the film as propaganda.
Film's title literally translates as "My Father and Mother."
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) May 24 - June 17, 2001.)
Released in United States January 2001 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema) in Park City, Utah January 18-28, 2001.)
Released in United States February 2000 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (in competition) February 9-20, 2000.)
Released in United States Summer May 25, 2001 (NY, LA)
Expanded Release in United States June 8, 2001
Released in United States September 2000 (Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival (Closing Night) September 21-30, 2000.)
Released in United States on Video November 27, 2001
