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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005) [Photo/Agencies]
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7.Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
This Zhang Yimou film pictures the controlled emotions and the love between a father and his son. A Japanese father living in a village as a fisherman discovers that his estranged son is dying of cancer. When he takes a train to Tokyo to visit his son at the hospital, the son refuses to see him. The daughter-in-law tips him off that his son adores rural Chinese folk opera and has an unfinished documentary on artist Li Jiamin from Southwest China's Yunan province. The father decides to go on a journey into the heart of a foreign country to look for Li.