How Is Your Fish Today
6.4 /10 1 Votes6.4
Music director Matt Scott Duration Language Mandarin | 6.2/10 Genre Drama Country China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 18, 2007 (2007-01-18) Writer Xiaolu Guo, Hui Rao Initial release March 15, 2008 (Vancouver) Similar movies Mongolian Ping Pong (2005), Electric Shadows (2004), The Herdsman (1982), The Red Awn (2007), The Horse Thief (1986) |
Film about a scriptwriters relationship with a village along the border between China and Russia.
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How Is Your Fish Today?, also known as Jin Tian De Yu Zen Me Yang?, is a 2007 Chinese film written by Xiaolu Guo and Hui Rao. It was directed by Xiaolu Guo. The film is a drama set in modern China, focusing on the intertwined stories of two main characters; a frustrated writer (Hui Rao) and the subject of his latest work, Lin Hao (Zijiang Yang). How Is Your Fish Today won 4 international awards and was well received by critics, but was not commercially successful.
A dreamed trip between village and city, between reality and fiction in a chaotic China.
Plot
How Is Your Fish Today? tells the story of a famous screenwriter (Rao) whose film scripts have all been rejected by Chinese censors. He writes a script about a man named Lin Hao (Yang) for his producer, who expects it to be a Chinese version of The Fugitive. Upon reading Raos arthouse script, the producer rejects it as the worst screenplay he has ever read. However, Rao does not abandon his story, instead he rewrites it. Rao begins to live through his main character, Lin Hao, as he writes about him fleeing his home on a journey of self-discovery. Hao makes his way to Mohe, as does Rao, and the writer enters his own narrative. Both characters, in a struggle for freedom, have left their homes behind, but while Lin Hao is running away, Hui Rao is searching for something.
Cast
Reception
How Is Your Fish Today? was consistently given good ratings by reviewers, but still remains fairly unpopular.
Critics
On its release, How Is Your Fish Today? was received well by critics, who applauded the film as an impressive debut from Guo.
Awards
References
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