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KING OF THE CHILDREN

Chen Kaige (Director), Xie Yuan, Yang Xuewen (Actor) Format: DVD
2.5 2.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
Genre Kids & Family
Format NTSC
Contributor Guangzhou Beauty Culture Communication Co.Ltd, Xie Yuan, Yang Xuewen, Chen Kaige
Runtime 1 hour and 46 minutes
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This film is adapted from the novel of Ah Cheng. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), there is a shabby school in a remote mountain area short of teachers. An educated youth, Old Cha", though young but has been living and working here for seven years, is chosen to be the "Urchin Cop", that is a teacher. With no books, he will copy the books; without textbook, his dictionary is the holy Bible. The children are prone to read critical articles, but they are not literate. Then the Urchin Cop teaches them how to spell the words and write a composition. Finally, Urchin Cop violates the educational contents and is dismissed, ending up again as the "Old Cha"."

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.5 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ B0018SH8DK
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Chen Kaige
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 46 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 7, 2010
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Xie Yuan, Yang Xuewen
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Guangzhou Beauty Culture Communication Co.Ltd
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ GZ Beauty
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0018SH8DK
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    2.5 2.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

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nyc
1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Boring Teacher
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2015
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This movie bored me so much that I had a hard time watching it. An impoverished young man becomes a teacher in an impoverished country side. He teaches about words and the powers of knowing many of them. The town is so poor that they have no books, not even a simple dictionary except one woman who he befriends. In the end, I'm not sure what the lesson was other than him day-dreaming about cows wanting to taste urine because it's not easy to find it.
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WangLaoshi
2.0 out of 5 stars Messed Up Chapters
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2012
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Agree with movie345. Having read the story (both CHN and ENG), the disjointed jumping around is disappointing. How that could happen I'm not sure, but it sure is sloppy. Looks like I'm going to have to edit/re-arrange. What a pain in the ass. Subtitles are amateurish as well, but that's about par for the course.
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ALWHorses
5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Cinema from China
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2019
One of the greatest movies ever made. As if Marguerite Duras & Robert Bresson had moved to China & shot it on a low budget when nobody was looking. But it's Chen Kaige, who also made the magnificent Yellow Earth & much else. You could teach film using nothing but this movie as your text. Consider how shots are constructed: with no regard for the conventions of "narrative cinema," Kaige sets up his shots to give you the atmosphere of rural China, peasant China, & he lets the drama (in the form of dialogue) happen off screen, somewhere to the side, either out of the frame completely or on its margins, while meantime the frame is filled with, say, a cracked earthenware bowl sitting on the ground in the musical falling rain, or a road winding up a mountain in blue fog. Even the occasional close up shots are distinctly enigmatic, not tied to any kind of dramatic "beat." Consider also his use of sound, which is Bressonian: the ordinary, atmospheric sounds of the country are always amplified, while dialogue is minimized, cut short, & often mysteriously unrelated to what is happening onscreen. Music is used sparsely, but to great effect. There is no "acting." Everything is real & the screen is filled with life. Highest marks.
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movie345
2.0 out of 5 stars Chapters incorrectly cut
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2010
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This is one of my most favorite and most watched Chinese movies. I decided to buy a copy of its DVD.
Unfortunately, this DVD version on Amazon has incorrectly cut chapters. The sequence of the chapters are totally messed up.
I recommend this movie, but I won't recommend this specific DVD.
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