Official site: http://www.sonypictures.net/movies/ridingalone/
Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/ridingaloneforthousandsofmiles/
IMDB: http://imdb.com/title/tt0437447/
RottenTomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/riding_alone_for_thousands_of_miles/

Estranged from his son for many years, Gou-ichi receives an unexpected call from his daughter-in-law, Rie, asking him to come to Tokyo to visit his son, Ken-ichi, who is in the hospital suffering from a stomach ailment. Gou-ichi decides to make the trip against his better judgment, but when he arrives, his son refuses to see him as he is still bearing the scars of the unspoken reasons why they were torn apart. Determined to reunite them, Rie gives Gou-ichi a videotape of an article Ken-ichi wrote about Li Jiamin, a Chinese folk opera master from Yunnan Province. Ken-ichi had promised Li that he would come back and film him performing "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles," an opera based on one of the stories in the literary classic ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS; Gou-ichi makes it his mission to travel to southern China, find Li, and film the performance himself.

This movie is going to kick ass. It was directed by Zhang Yimou, director of Hero and House of Flying Daggers. This is not a martial arts flick by any means, but he has made some seriously amazing straight-up dramas, too. If you've seen either Hero orHouse of Flying Daggers, you know it's going to be beautiful.

It's got 79% on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.6 on IMDB, so this one should be pretty good. Come see it!

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles is opening this Friday, December 1st, at Galaxy Cinema in Cary. I'll post the showtimes when I have them.

11/27/2006 6:53:36 PM

i wonder how many people will see "from the director of Hero and House of Flying Daggers" and then be completely disappointed with the lack of wirework.

11/27/2006 6:58:24 PM

Hopefully several thousand in the triangle area.

GOTTA GET PAID, SON!!

11/27/2006 7:00:50 PM

ARE YOU SERIOUS WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME OH GOD I WILL BE THERE OPENING DAY JESUS CHRIST

I wish I were kidding. I'm worried about this one, actually- Zhang Yimou's lost all his awesome personal story-ness for these huge epics that are beautiful but lack the same substance of his earlier stuff. So I hope this will be him getting back on his personal relationship horse.

Also, you know this thread should be called (dir. of To Live)

[Edited on November 27, 2006 at 10:02 PM. Reason : .]

11/27/2006 9:42:49 PM

after watching Heroes and Flying, I will never, ever, see a film with those monikers attached to a film

hated 'em

11/27/2006 9:48:10 PM

hero and flying daggers were pretty but that's about all they had going for them

11/27/2006 10:17:45 PM

Quote :

"Also, you know this thread should be called (dir. of To Live)"

1. That wouldn't fit.
2. People have seen Hero.
3. To Live is more awesome than these people can handle.

11/27/2006 11:33:02 PM

omg you are right

Also, it's always the movie I end up watching with other people (well, that and Before Sunrise/Sunset), and I never mind. One of these days, some depressed somebody is going to want to see The Ice Storm instead, and I'm going to laugh.

11/27/2006 11:37:58 PM

Wait, so is The Ice Storm more or less depressing than To Live?

And, yeah, I need to see that. Fuckin' movies. They keep making more of them

11/27/2006 11:39:54 PM

The Ice Storm is one of the most cynical movies I've seen. Depressing? Hell yes.

11/27/2006 11:48:07 PM

Showtimes for Galaxy Cinema:
Friday-Sunday 12:50, 5:05, 7:15
Monday-Thursday 12:50, 4:05

11/28/2006 2:40:24 PM

no Zhang Ziyi(sp?) no $ from me.

11/28/2006 2:58:17 PM

Quote :

"Gou-ichi decides to make the trip against his better judgment, but when he arrives, his son refuses to see him as he is still bearing the scars of the unspoken reasons why they were torn apart."

The backbone of this movie is a good reason to see it alone

11/28/2006 5:40:44 PM

Im seeing this TONIGHT! in like an hour! (OH NOES Luke just knocked over my entire laundry basket onto his head!!!)

11/30/2006 9:41:31 PM

The movie was great except for the voice overs.

12/1/2006 1:46:29 AM

+10 points for taking pictures of kids pooping

And also a weird little jaunt into Japanese for Zhang Yimou, come to think of it. I haven't seen him do anything in Japanese before.

[Edited on December 1, 2006 at 1:51 AM. Reason : .]

12/1/2006 1:48:53 AM

i cant even imagine what it would feel like to know you all and like actually try out some of this stuff

12/1/2006 1:50:26 AM

It would blow your fucking mind.

p.s. COME SEE IT, BITCHES! 7:15!!!

12/1/2006 6:36:09 PM

C'mon, somebody go see it- it's really good.

12/3/2006 1:38:44 AM

It's looking like this is going to be a one-week affair

Come see it by Thursday or you probably won't have the chance!

12/3/2006 1:45:29 AM

Damn you all for not liking Zhang Yimou enough!

12/3/2006 2:00:07 AM

You sons of bitches!

p.s. Curse of the Golden Flower will probably be coming in just a couple months.

12/3/2006 3:43:12 PM

^ hotttttt

12/3/2006 5:58:58 PM

bump because Curse of the Golden Flower comes out on the 12th

<3

1/7/2007 12:56:05 AM

I should probably make a thread for that.

1/7/2007 1:46:49 AM

nah, I'd be the only one posting in it

[/stupid love of Chinese cinema]

1/7/2007 5:24:17 PM

Chinese directors have an unfair advantage. They can pay 50 cents a day for as many actors and extras that they want.

1/7/2007 6:21:39 PM

hahahahahahahaha

Yeah, all of Zhang Yimou's cinematographic skill is completely dependent upon cheap extras.

1/7/2007 7:11:06 PM