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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2006)
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"If Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles were an American film, we would probably think of it as an indie, Sundance picture. Broadly, it's about an eccentric man trying to solve a family problem, and eccentric family problems are for whatever reason the subject that indie filmmakers are obsessed with. But it is not an American film, and frankly watching an old idea played out among two cultures I was unfamiliar with is more interesting than seeing the fifth millionth remake of Five Easy Pieces and waiting for the inevitable supporting role from Parker Posey. The eccentric at the center is a middle aged Japanese man named Takata (Ken Takakura). A widower, he lives by himself on a remote island until he gets a call from his daughter in law Rie (Shinobu Terajima) informing him that his estranged son Kenichi (Kiichi Naki) is dying of liver cancer. Takata immediately rushes to see his son, but Kenichi refuses to see him. Rie gives the father a video of "
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"Don’t be fooled, now. This film may look like a beautiful, epic piece of cinema, but that’s likely only because it was shot by Xiaoding Zhao, whose relatively short cinematography resume includes Zhang Yimou’s House of Flying Daggers (for which Xiaoding received an Oscar nomination), Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles and Curse of the Golden Flower (he was also a cameraman for Yimou’s Hero). So yeah, The Children of Huang Shi will certainly be a good looking film, but notice who the director is. That’s right, Roger Spottiswoode, a guy whose worst film is difficult to decide upon. I’d say it’s a toss up between The 6th Day and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. I’ve never seen
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"Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005) follows Gou-ichi Takata, played by legendary Japanese actor Ken Takakura (The Yakuza), as he embarks on a quest to reconnect with his ill son. He makes his way to China's Yunan Province to record the performance of Li Jiamin, as his son had promised to do a year earlier. Directed by Yimou Zhang, who is perhaps best known in the West for Hero (2003) and House of Flying Daggers (2004), audiences might be surprised by how intimate Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles is compared to his martial art epics, but this is actually a return to form for the Oscar-nominated director. While the film is most easily approached as a conversation about the relationships between fathers and sons, the growth experienced by Takata is far more intriguing, and is perhaps best expressed by his envy of Li Jiamin's public display of emotion over the absence of his son Yang Yang, who is being raised by a small village. Takakura's performance is incre ... "
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