Father

Year: 2000

Runtime: 96 mins

Language: Chinese

Director: Wang Shuo

Drama

Father follows widowed low‑level party official Ma Lisheng as he struggles to raise his school‑age son Ma Che. By day he works a modest job; at home he swings between bonding—sometimes drinking together—and harsh verbal outbursts. Frustrated, the boy arranges a match for his father with Qing Huaiyuan, the mother of a classmate.

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