Directed by:
Peter ChanScreenplay:
Ji ZhangCinematography:
Shu ChouComposer:
Leon KoCast:
Vicki Zhao, Bo Huang, Dawei Tong, Lei Hao, Kitty Zhang, Yi Zhang, Guoqiang Zhang, Ailei Yu, Yiqing Li, Xiangbiao Hou, Zhifei Wang, Natas Asoka, Ying Chen (more)Plots(1)
Based on a true story, this hard-hitting social drama focuses on child abduction in China—a country where illegal adoption, especially of sons, has become a thriving industry due to the government's one-child policy. When three-year-old Pengpeng disappears from a playground, single dad Tian Wen-jun must join forces with his ex-wife, Lu Xian-juan, to try to find the boy. Finally, after three years of broadcasting desperate pleas on TV, spreading the news on the Internet, even joining a support group for parents of missing children, they succeed. But that's not the end of the story. Raised by a woman who insists, persuasively, that she didn't steal him, Pengpeng no longer knows his parents; he doesn't remember the nursery rhymes that used to delight him and doesn't even speak Mandarin anymore. In examining the murky aftermath of a solved kidnapping, director Peter Ho-Sun Chan (Comrades: Almost a Love Story) raises profound questions about identity as it pertains not only to the nature-nurture debate but also to our codes of morality. (Denver International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Vicki Zhao
China
Best movies:
Red Cliff: Part II (2009)
Red Cliff (2008)
The Longest Night in Shanghai (2007)
Bo Huang
China
Best movies:
Cow (2009)
No Man's Land (2013)
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013)
Dawei Tong
China
Best movies:
Red Cliff (2008)
The Flowers of War (2011)
Lost in Beijing (2007)
Lei Hao
China
Best movies:
One Night Only (2016)
Summer Palace (2006)
Mystery (2012)
Kitty Zhang
China
Best movies:
The Longest Night in Shanghai (2007)
Legend of the Demon Cat (2017)
CJ7 (2008)
Yi Zhang
China
Best movies:
Beginning of the Great Revival (2011)
One Second (2020)
The 800 (2020)
Guoqiang Zhang
China
Best movies:
After Shock (2010)
Back to 1942 (2012)
The Rescue (2020)
Ailei Yu
China
Best movies:
Mountain Cry (2015)
One Second (2020)
The 800 (2020)
Xiangbiao Hou
China
Zhifei Wang
China
Best movies:
The Bravest (2019)
Natas Asoka
China
Best movies:
Saving Mr. Wu (2015)
The Ghouls (2015)
Ying Chen
China
Lingmei Kong
China
Yang Li
China
Best movies:
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011)
Crazy Tsunami (2021)