Overview
This family tale spans three generations of Chinese trying to understand and come to terms with life's changes. Middlesome relatives stir up a storm. The old and the young find themselves and their values developing and evolving, and new relationships come and go. The eldest family member, Guan, the son of a royal physician of the former Qing Dynasty, has also become a great physician who is able to predict the exact time of a patient's death. His ex-daughter-in-law, Yu, trained by him to be a physician, still stays with the family as his assistant. Her ex-husband, Jin, comes back from the USA with his new girlfriend, Jenny, a beautiful American who is doing a research on the death of Guangxu, the second last Emperor of Qing Dynasty who is Guan's father's patient. Jenny speaks fluent Mandarin, but she has a long way to go before understanding and getting accustomed to the Chinese tradition and mindset. On the other hand, Yu falls in love with her old friend who is a married man.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 20, 2000
- Original language
- Chinese
- Spoken languages
- Chinese, English
- Countries
- China
- Production
- Beijing Film Studio
- Cast
- Wang Zhixia,Zhu Xu
- Director
- Ding Yinnan
- Writer
- Ding Yinnan,Guangqin Ye
- Producer
- Han Sanping
- Cinematography
- Yu Xiao Qun
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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