Keep Cool (1997)
1h 33m
Running Time
May 16, 1997Release Date
Plot.
China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the laptop computer from a man looking at the scene gets broken. Who will pay for the computer? The bookseller wants revenge. Will it be useful? The bookseller and the laptop owner are from different ages and classes. They are two different points of view, two different Chinas. How will they fight for justice?
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Cast & Crew.
Jiang Wen
Zhao Xiaoshuai
Li Baotian
Lao Zhang
Qu Ying
An Hong
Liu Xinyi
Liu Delong
Zhang Yimou
Poet Reader / Director
Zhao Benshan
Junk Peddler
Du Xudong
Xiao Ge
Fang Qingzhuo
Big Sister
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 16, 1997
Original Name有话好好说
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 33m
Filming LocationsBeijing · Peking, China
Genres
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Wiki.
Keep Cool (simplified Chinese: 有话好好说; traditional Chinese: 有話好好說; pinyin: Yǒu Huà Hǎo Hǎo Shuō; lit. 'If you have something to say', ' say it nicely') is a 1997 Chinese black comedy directed by Zhang Yimou and adapted from the novel Evening Papers News by Shu Ping. The film, which is about a bookseller in love in 1990s Beijing, marked a move away from Zhang's earlier period pictures to a more realistic cinéma vérité-like era in his career that also saw him make Happy Times (2000) and Not One Less (1999). Keep Cool also marked only the third time Zhang placed his film in the modern era and the first time Zhang did not work with actress Gong Li.
The film was produced by the Guangxi Film Studio.
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