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That is the case in Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, a heart-affecting film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou who has two other fine intimate dramas to his credit: Not One Less, about a determined young schoolteacher; and The Road Home, a spellbinding tale of romantic love. Here an elderly father who has not spoken with his estranged son for ten years decides to make the first move toward reconciliation.
"Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles" is the story of a father, who in attempting a last-minute reconciliation with his dying son, brings another little boy back to his father. Like the character of Gou-ichi Takata (legendary Japanese actor Ken Takakura, "The Yakuza"), we never see the character of Kenichi (voice of Kiichi Nakai), only that of Rie (Shinobu Terajima), Gou-ichi's daughter-in-law.
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles represents the other Zhang Yimou, the director of bitterswewet, intimate character pieces, films like Not One Less and The Road Home. (A third Zhang, director of provocative melodramas like Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern , hasn’t been seen in awhile.)
Aug 31, 2006 · For all its simplicity, Riding Alone is rich with marvelous details: the comical frustrations of the language barrier, the otherworldly beauty of the Chinese landscape, the tenuousness of cell ...
Oct 25, 2005 · Mainland Chinese helmer Zhang Yimou returns to the touching emotionalism of his earlier, smaller-scale dramas with "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles," a long way from his splashy martial arts ...
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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Drama 2012 1 hr 47 min iTunes Available on iTunes In an effort to reconnect with his dying filmmaker son, an aging Japanese ...
