To Live (1994)
To Live (1994)

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Cast & Crew.

Ge You
Xu Fugui

Gong Li
Xu Jiazhen

Niu Ben
Town Chief

Guo Tao
Chunsheng

Jiang Wu
Wan Erxi

Ni Dahong
Long'er

Liu Tianchi
Xu Fengxia

Zhang Lu
Young Fengxia

Zongluo Huang
Fu Gui's Dad

Dong Fei
Xu Youqing

Huang Zongluo
Fugui's Dad

Liu Yanjin
Fugui's Mom

Li Lianyi
Sgt. Lao Quan

Su Yan
Obstetric Nurse

Zhao Yu-Xiu
Physician Wang

Xiao Jie
Young Fengxia

Zhang Kang
Mantou

Lu Wei
Screenplay

Yu Hua
Novel / Screenplay

Zhang Yimou
Director

Lü Yue
Director of Photography

Tôru Adachi
Visual Effects Supervisor

Christophe Tseng
Producer

Funhong Kow
Producer

Yau Fook-Sang
Producer

Tomeno Geya
Sound Editor

Koshiro Jinbo
Sound Mixer

Yoshihiro Nakayama
Sound Mixer

Shin'ichi Itô
Sound Mixer

Du Yuan
Editor

Cao Juiping
Art Direction

Quanbao Zheng
Assistant Director

Zhang Xiaochun
Assistant Director

Bin Wang
Assistant Director

Meng Weibing
Additional Camera

Zhao Jiping
Original Music Composer
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Details.
Release DateMay 18, 1994
Original Name活着
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 13m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
To Live, also titled Lifetimes in some English versions, is a 1994 Chinese drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and written by Lu Wei, based on the novel of the same name by Yu Hua. It was produced by the Shanghai Film Studio and ERA International, starring Ge You and Gong Li, in her seventh collaboration with director Zhang Yimou.
The film looks back on four generations of the Xu family: Xu Fugui, played by Ge You; his father, a wealthy landowner; his wife, Jiazhen, played by Gong Li; their daughter, Fengxia, and son, Youqing; and finally their grandson, Little Bun. The action goes from the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. The film, like many examples of fiction and film in the 1970s and 1980s, demonstrates the difficulties of the common Chinese, but ends when conditions are seemingly improving in the 1980s.
To Live was screened at the 1994 New York Film Festival before eventually receiving a limited release in the United States on November 18, 1994. The film has been used in the United States as a support to teach Chinese history in colleges.
Having achieved international success with his previous films (Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), director Zhang Yimou's To Live came with high expectations, and lived up to it, receiving critical acclaim. It is the first Chinese film that had its foreign distribution rights pre-sold. Furthermore, To Live brought home the Grand Prix, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and Best Actor Award (Ge You) from the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, the highest major international awards Zhang Yimou has ever won.
The film was denied a theatrical release in mainland China by the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television due to its critical portrayal of policies and campaigns.
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