Ten years inside, and the only thing that stayed the same was the woman who moved on without you.
After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is booming, his childhood friend is now rich. Searching for traces of the familiar, Jiangyu meets his old love who now has a daughter.
Acting
Lee Kang-sheng's prison-hollowed stillness says everything words can't.
Cinematography
Hainan's construction cranes as monuments to lost time.
Direction
Wu Lang lets scenes breathe until they ache.
Director
Wu Lang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lee Kang-sheng is Tsai Ming-liang's muse; this is his rare mainland Chinese lead role.
Hainan's 2010s property bubble serves as metaphor for lives demolished and rebuilt without consent.
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