Based on an acclaimed Chinese novel and starring two of China's biggest movie stars, director Sun Zhou's curious love story is nevertheless more confounding than romantic. Painter Zhou Yu (Gong Li) uses her extraordinary talent to decorate vases and bowls for a ceramics factory in Sanming, a town in northwestern China. One afternoon while riding a train, Zhang Jiang (Sun Hong Lei), a handsome young veterinarian, offers to buy the lovely vase Zhou Yu is bringing to her lover, Chen Ching (Tony Leung Ka-fai) as a gift. Zhou Yu refuses to sell, and when Zhang Jiang flirtatiously refuses to take no for an answer, she deliberately drops the delicate object onto the floor o...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
97 mins