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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (simplified Chinese: 千里走单骑; traditional Chinese: 千里走單騎, Japanese: 単騎, 千里を走る) is a 2005 drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Ken Takakura. It premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival on 22 October 2005 and was released in China on 22 December.
Dec 22, 2005 · Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: Directed by Yimou Zhang. With Ken Takakura, Shinobu Terajima, Kiichi Nakai, Ken Nakamoto. A Japanese father travels to China's Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a folk-opera singer.
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- Drama
- Yimou Zhang
- 2005-12-22
Upon learning his estranged son (Kiichi Nakai) has cancer, a Japanese fisherman (Ken Takakura) travels to Tokyo to see him. Though his son rejects him, the fisherman decides to finish the dying...
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- Yimou Zhang
- PG
- Ken Takakura
Movie: Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles. Chinese: 千里走单骑. Director: Zhang Yimou. Assistant Director: Toshimasa Miyamura. Writer: Bin Wang, Zhang Yimou, Jingzhi Zou. Producer: Cinematography: Release Date: December 22, 2005. Runtime: 107 min. Language: Japanese, Mandarin. Country: China, Hong Kong, Japan. Plot.
Sep 1, 2006 · Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles. Directed by Yimou Zhang. Drama. PG. 1h 47m. By Nathan Lee. Sept. 1, 2006. The opening shot of the new Zhang Yimou picture is as spectacular as anything...
Sep 1, 2006 · Overview. Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital.
RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES. Drama. For the first time in years, aging fisherman Takata Gou-ichi boards a bullet train to Tokyo when he learns his estranged son is gravely ill. But at the hospital, his son refuses to see him. Daughter-in-law Rie urges Takata to watch a videotape of a documentary his son was filming in rural China.
