Dandelion

Overview

A Chinese family from a poor rural village in Fujian Province continues to bring other family members to Japan via smuggling and bigamous marriages. Undeterred by the uncertainty of their status as illegal immigrants, they continue to send money to their extended family waiting back home. They experience sudden illness, arrests, and deception by Japanese. They manage to scrape by running a beauty parlor and an internet café, but language and visa problems make life difficult. At their ancestral home in China, their family waits for them with mixed feelings. The director, a student from China, offers us a glimpse of the unknown corners of the international city of Tokyo.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 5, 2003

Original language

German

Production

Japan Academy of Moving Images

Director

Shujian Ren

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt5175516