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Sunflower

Sunflower

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 10, 2005

Runtime

2h 9m

Genres

Drama, Romance

User Score

63%

Original Title

向日葵

Production Companies

China Film Group Corporation

Director

Zhang Yang

Description

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.