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Director
  
Xiaolu Guo

Music director
  
Matt Scott

Duration
  

Language
  
Mandarin

6.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Screenplay
  
Xiaolu Guo, Hui Rao

Country
  
China

How Is Your Fish Today movie poster
Release date
  
January 18, 2007 (2007-01-18)

Writer
  
Xiaolu Guo, Hui Rao

Initial release
  
March 15, 2008 (Vancouver)

Cast
  
Xiaolu Guo
(Mimi),
Ning Hao
(Hu Ning),
Hui Rao
(Hui Rao),
Zijiang Yang
(Lin Hao)

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

  • Hui Rao as himself.
  • Zijiang Yang as Lin Hao.
  • Xiaolu Guo as Mimi.
  • Ning Hao as Hu Ning.

    • 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

  • Guo was awarded the "Grand Prix" at the 2007 Creteil International Womens Film Festival.
  • Guo was given a Special Mention at the 2007 Fribourg International Film Festival.
  • Guo was given a Special Mention at the 2007 Pesaro International Film Festival of New Cinema.
  • Guo was given a Special Mention at the 2007 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
  • Guo was nominated for the "Tiger Award" at the 2007 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
  • Guo was nominated for "Grand Jury Prize" in the World Cinema/Dramatic categories at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

    • References

    How Is Your Fish Today? Wikipedia
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    How Is Your Fish Today? IMDb How Is Your Fish Today? themoviedb.org