Liu Zhenyun — Playwright (5)

Movie

Cell Phone (2003)
手机
★ 7.0 (5 ratings) director: Feng Xiaogang actor: Ge You / Xu Fan …
other title: 手机 / Téléphone mobile …
Follows the story of a television host who's hidden so much personal and secret information on his phone, that when it gets out, catastrophe strikes.

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Gimme Kudos (2005)
求求你,表扬我
director: Huang Jianxin actor: Chen Hao / Dong Yong …
other title: 求求你,表扬我
Old-fashioned, middle-aged Yang Hongqi claims that on a rainy night he saved a university coed from the threat of sexual violence on the outer limits of Nanjing city. He soon begs Gu Guoge, a superstar reporter at Nanjing Newspaper, for public kudos in the press. At first Gu ignores the absurd request, but pushed by Yang's desperate and tenacious attitude Gu begins to look at verifying the case. Finally he finds the victim, Ouyang Hua but no witness. Later, it is revealed why Yang strives so desperately to publicize his heroics: extolled as a model of a national laborer, his father has lived with many medals and commendations on the wall of his hometown and wants to hang Yang's commendation on the wall before his death.

Movie

Back to 1942 (2012)
一九四二
★ 7.8 (11 ratings) director: Feng Xiaogang actor: Zhang Guoqiang / Duan Yihong …
other title: Empire of War - Der letzte Widerstand / 一九四二 …
In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by one of the most tragic famines in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government.

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Someone to Talk To (2016)
一句顶一万句
director: Liu Yulin actor: Mao Hai / Li Qian …
other title: Someone To Talk To / 一句顶一万句
An adaptation of Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning novel One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand, produced by Bill Kong.

The novel, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize after it was published in 2008, revolves around a divorced woman and her married younger brother and deals with loneliness and alienation in contemporary Chinese society.

The film marks the feature debut of award-winning short filmmaker Liu Yulin, who is adapting her father’s work. A New York University film graduate, Liu’s short film Door God (2014) won a silver medal at the 41st Student Academy Awards and was selected by Cannes.