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  • 2001
  • G
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2001
  • G
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary The story of a Chinese man who works in the city, far from the village where he was born. When his father dies he comes home for the funeral and spends three days with his mother, thinking back to the period in which his parents met and fell in love. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Directed By: Yimou Zhang

Written By: Shi Bao

  • 2001
  • G
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2001
  • G
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 29 m

The Road Home

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Summary The story of a Chinese man who works in the city, far from the village where he was born. When his father dies he comes home for the funeral and spends three days with his mother, thinking back to the period in which his parents met and fell in love. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Directed By: Yimou Zhang

Written By: Shi Bao

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Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
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A great love story and a deeply moving celebration of simple lives.
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
90
A gorgeous film with a vision strong enough to sustain heart-tugging, heightened by San Bao's romantic score, that verges on the sentimental.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
80
The flutes soar a little too often, but Yimou's film is genuinely moving.
By Kevin Maynard FULL REVIEW
75
It's a simple story, reminiscent of the Iranian film "The Wind Will Carry Us."
By Edward Guthmann FULL REVIEW
75
It's a sweet tale, but the movie's real subject is Zhang, the camera's muse that the lens adores.
By Mike Clark FULL REVIEW
60
A nostalgic paean to China's fading pastoral ways, might easily be taken for an audition tape for Zhang Ziyi.
By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW
30
By all current standards it's a startlingly ingenuous film.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Guangxi Film Studio, Xin Huamian Film
Release Date May 25, 2001
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating G
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Awards

Golden Rooster Awards
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
Kinema Junpo Awards
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Asian Film Critics Association Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations

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