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A Beautiful New World (1999)
Directed by Shi Runjiu
Comedy, Drama · 1h 37m
A satirical comedy about a country bumpkin who goes to the big city, and ends up teaching the cynical city folk a few lessons about basic human decency. The hero leaves home for the first time to go to Shanghai, to collect his lottery prize - a brand new apartment. However, when he arrives, he is told by the developers that his apartment block will take a year and a half to complete. He decides to find a job in Shanghai and wait for his apartment to materialise...
Cast
Jiang Wu
Tao Hong
Richie Jen
Wu Bai
Tong Zhengwei
Lei Cheng
Niu Ben
Crew
- Director
- Shi Runjiu
- Screenplay
- Shi Runjiu, Liu Fendou
- Director of Photography
- Lü Yue
- Editor
- Yang Hongyu
- Producer
- Peter Loehr
Details
- Original title
- 美丽新世界
- Release date
- 1999-02-19
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin
- Countries
- Taiwan, China
- Production
- Imar Film Co., Ltd., Xi'an Film Studio