People Mountain People Sea

Ren shan ren hai

Hong Kong, China

2011

92 Min

Color

Mandarin

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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SCR Cai Shangjun, Gu Xiao-bai, Gu Zheng

CAST Chen Jianbin, Tao Höng, Wu Xiubo, Hong Tao, Zhang Xin, Wang Xu, Bao Zhenjiang, Hou Xiang, Tian Xinyu

MUSIC Zhou Jiaojiao

Venice (Competition): Best Director, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Stockholm (Open Zone), San Francisco (New Directors)

Synopsis

Lao Tie knows in his heart that he must help find his younger brother’s killer, despite his own problems. He has only recently returned home penniless to the remote mountain community after years away working in the city. Although the police identified the murderer as ex-con Xiao Qiang from a neighbouring village, they were not able to stop him from escaping. Lao Tie decides to hunt down his brother’s killer. He begins a journey that will unleash his long-suppressed inner pain and rage. –Venice Film Festival

Director

Cai Shangjun

Cai Shangjun (Chinese: 蔡尚君; pinyin: Cài Shàngjūn) is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Cai graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1992. Since then, his major work has been that of a professional screenwriter. Cai was part of the team, along with Zhang Yang, Diao Yi’nan, and Liu Fendou, that co-wrote the screenplays for two of Zhang’s films: Spicy Love Soup (1997) and Shower (1999). Cai also cowrote a script for Zhang’s Sunflower (2005).

In 2007, Cai directed his first film, The Red Awn, which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2007 Pusan International Film Festival.

In 2011, Cai won the Silver Lion for the Best Director at the 68th Venice International Film Festival with the film People Mountain People Sea. —Wikipedia