A New Old Play (2022)
May 20, 2022Release Date
A New Old Play (2022)
May 20, 2022Release Date


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Cast & Crew.

Yi Sicheng
Qui Fu

Haoyu Chen
Child Qiufu

Guan Nan
Tong Huafeng

Gu Tao
Tuo Zi

Qiu Zhimin
Pocky

Xue Xuchun
Chicken Foot

Tao Gu
Crooky

Xu Gang
Zhang

Huang Lingchao
Horse-face / Assistant Director

Liu Boyu
Ox-head

Lu Wei
Generalissimo

Qiao Jiannan
Soldier / Art Department Assistant

Xu Mingyong
Lieutenant Luo

Jiaqi Wang
Manager Ma

Jin Yang
Producer

Wang Jiafu
Manager Liu

Nick Wen
Holy Founder

Yakui Zhan
First Wife / Wardrobe Designer

Qiao Hu
Li Yongxin

Yuchao Feng
Director of Photography

Lü Xin
Art Direction

Bai Yun
Costume Designer / Makeup & Hair

Wang Ran
Sound Designer

Diao Lili
Music

Ding Ding
Producer / Executive Producer

Yang Jin
Producer

Zhao Jin
Co-Producer

Li Yuwen
Co-Producer / Line Producer

Jordane Oudin
Co-Producer

Han Yi
Co-Producer / Executive Producer

Li Jing
Line Producer

Sophie L
Executive Producer

Vivian Bao
Co-Executive Producer

Xastle Tang
Co-Executive Producer

Su Qiqi
Co-Executive Producer

Huang Yue
Co-Executive Producer

Chio Cao
Editorial Production Assistant

Hong Wang
Editorial Staff

张紫怡

侯宗戬
Art Department Assistant

Hongyu Jiang

Qiu Jiongjiong
Screenplay / Production Designer / Editor / Director

Chen Jianing
Property Master / Wardrobe Designer

Weikai Huang
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Details.
Release DateMay 20, 2022
Original Name椒麻堂会
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 59m
Genres
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Wiki.
A New Old Play (Chinese: 椒麻堂會) is a 2021 epic film directed and written by Qiu Jiongjiong. As Qiu's seventh film, it marks his first fictional feature. A co-production between Hong Kong's Uluka Productions and France's Hippocampe Productions, the film stars Yi Sicheng as Qiu Fu, a recently deceased Sichuan opera actor, alongside Guan Nan, Qiu Zhimin, Gu Tao, and Xue Xuchun. The story chronicles Qiu Fu's life and career in China from the 1920s to the 1980s through his remembrances during his journey into the netherworld, featuring events such as the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Civil War, the Great Chinese Famine, and the Cultural Revolution.
Qiu Jiongjiong conceived of the project in 2017 after illustrating the biography for his grandfather and Sichuan opera actor Qiu Fu. Inspired to tell the story with film, Qiu based the protagonist on his grandfather and began developing a screenplay from May 2017 to February 2018 under the working title The Neo-New Adventures. Production design spanned six months before principal photography began in August 2019 in Leshan, Sichuan over three months. Post-production took place in France, with French filmmaker Marie-Pierre Duhamel-Muller involved in the editing. The film also marks the second film to be primarily in Sichuanese, after the 1962 film Conscription.
A New Old Play had its world premiere in competition for the Golden Leopard at the 74th Locarno Film Festival on 13 August 2021, where it received the Special Jury Prize. It also garnered various accolades and received positive reviews from critics, with praises particularly on its themes, narrative style and complexities, and production design. Due to censorship in China, only single-time private screenings were held worldwide from 2021 to 2022. The film received its first wide release in France on 30 April 2025.
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