Sunflower

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Release date: September 10, 2005
Duration: 129 minutes
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Overview

Sunflower is the story of the Zhang family in Beijing father, mother and son across three decades, centering on the tensions and misunderstandings between father and son. Nine-year-old Xiangyang is having the time of his life, free of adult supervision until the day he meets the father he can hardly remember. Having spent years away, he returns with strong ideas about his son learning to draw. But Xiangyang chafes under his father's constant rules and soon stages his own revolution against the lessons enforced.

Starring

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Joan Chen
Zhang Xiuqing
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Gao Ge
Zhang Xiangyang as a 19 year old man
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Wang Haidi
Zhang Xiangyang as a 30 year old man
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Liang Jing
Han Jing, Xiaoyang's wife
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Liu Zifeng
Lao Liu, Zhang Gengnian's best friend and fellow artist