Characters & Themes
Rice (2003) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2003 · 110 mins · Chinese
- Directed by
- Huang Jian-Zhong
- Starring
- Tao Zeru, Yang Kun, Xia Zongyou, Zhu Decheng, Shi Lan, Wang Zhenrong
Though filmed in 1995, the movie was banned until 2004. It adapts Su Tong’s novel about a cunning, amoral country boy who arrives in a bustling 1930s metropolis and takes a job at a rice emporium. Initially marginalized, he quickly masters the trade, rises through the ranks and ultimately becomes its boss by marrying the owner’s daughter. Firmly.
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