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Music director
  
Wu Gang

Duration
  

7.2/10
IMDb

Director
  
Lu Yue

Screenplay
  
Lu Yue, Ping Shu

Language
  
Mandarin

Mr Zhao movie poster

Release date
  
Template:Fil mdate

Writer
  
Yue Lu, Ping Shu

Cast
  
Jing-ming Shi, Zhi-Hua Zhang, Yi-Nan Chen

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Mr. Zhao (simplified Chinese: 赵先生; traditional Chinese: 趙先生; pinyin: Zhào Xiānshēng) is a 1998 Chinese dark comedy film. It is the directorial debut of Lü Yue, already a well-established cinematographer for director Zhang Yimou.

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Mr. Zhao tells the story of a philandering doctor living in Shanghai. His infidelity gets the best of him, however, when his mistress Tian Jing (Chen Yinan) announces she is pregnant, while his wife learns of his affair but refuses to grant a divorce.

Cast

  • Shi Jingming as the titular Mr. Zhao, a teacher of Chinese medicine.
  • Zhang Zhihua as his wife, a factory worker.
  • Chen Yinan as Tian Jing, his student and now pregnant mistress.

    • Reception

    Mr. Zhao won the 1998 Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland.

    The film was also entered into competition at the 1999 Hong Kong International Film Festival and the 1998 AFI Fest in Los Angeles.

    References

    Mr. Zhao Wikipedia
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    Mr Zhao IMDb Mr Zhao themoviedb.org