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Article: Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles.(Movie review)
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- September 22, 2006
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Produced by Bill Kong, Xiu Jian, and Zhang Weiping; directed by Zhang Yimou; screenplay by Zou Jingzhi, based on a story by Zhang Yimou, Zou Jingzhi, and Wang Bin; cinematography by Zhao Xiaoding; production design by Sun Li; costumes (Japanese) by Takahashi Kyoko; edited by Cheng Long; music composed by Guo Wenjing; starring Ken Takakura, Shinobu Terajima, Kiichi Nakai, Li Jiamin, Qiu Lin, and Jiang Wen. Color, 109 mins. A Sony Pictures Classics release.
"Chinese films are not like Western films," Zhang Yimou once remarked. "They are neither a commodity nor a work of art," he told an interviewer, Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang. "They belong in the realm of 'ideology.'"
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