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Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
Keywords
epic
child abuse
china
gambling
gambling debt
cultural revolution
chinese civil war
shadow puppet
1940s
1950s
1960s
Casts
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
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
Dong Li-Fan
Crews
Lu Wei
Screenplay
Yu Hua
Novel
Zhang Yimou
Director
Lü Yue
Director of Photography
Yau Fook-Sang
Producer
Funhong Kow
Producer
Christophe Tseng
Producer
Du Yuan
Editor
Tomeno Geya
Sound Editor
Shin'ichi Itô
Sound Mixer
Koshiro Jinbo
Sound Mixer
Yoshihiro Nakayama
Sound Mixer
Tôru Adachi
Visual Effects Supervisor
Cao Juiping
Art Direction
Quanbao Zheng
Assistant Director
Zhang Xiaochun
Assistant Director
Bin Wang
Assistant Director
Meng Weibing
Additional Camera
Yu Hua
Screenplay
Zhao Jiping
Original Music Composer
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