Movie
The World
Overview
At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city’s suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another woman.
Details
- Release date
- 2004-09-01
- Runtime
- 140 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Office Kitano, Lumen Films, Xstream Pictures, Shanghai Film Group, Bandai Visual, Tokyo FM, dentsu, TV Asahi, Bitters End, Celluloid Dreams, China Film Co-Production
- Country
- China, France, Japan
- Original language
- ZH
Cast
- Zhao Tao as Tao
- Cheng Taishen as Taisheng
- Jue Jing as Wei
- Jiang Zhongwei as Niu
- Wang Hongwei as Sanlai
- Liang Jingdong as Tao's Ex-boyfriend
- Huang Yiqun as Qun
- Shuai Ji as Erxiao
- Wan Xiang as Youyou
- Alla Shcherbakova as Anna
- Han Sanming as Sanming
- Wang Xiaoshuai
Crew
- Jia Zhangke - Director
- Jia Zhangke - Writer
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