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| Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles |
Director Zhang Yimou is better known these days for opulent martial arts epics such as
Hero. With his latest film, he returns to the intimate scale and reality-based drama of earlier films.
On discovering that his son is unwell, a Japanese fisherman seeks to restore his son's faith.
He travels to China's Yunnan Province in search of an opera singer his son had met during a research project.
"A gently affecting and occasionally very funny film"
The Age
