Not One Less
by Yimou Zhang
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Actor: Enman Gao, Huike Zhang, Minzhi Wei, Zhenda Tian, Zhimei SunDirector: Yimou Zhang
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Yong Hou
Editor: Ru Zhai
Producer: Weiping Zhang
Producer: Yu Zhao
Writer: Xiangsheng Shi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Chinese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-08-22
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Not One Less
Movie Review: Brilliant and beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know how this movie got into my Netflix queue, but it took my breath away. Brilliant and deceptively beautiful, and acted by "real people," not professional actors. What a lovely and realistic look at life in China, and what a moving depiction of a loving heart.
Not to be missed.
Summary of Not One Less
This is the comic fable set in rural china where a young woman is ordered to a remote village to be a substitute teacher. When her biggest troublemaker disappears into the city to find work she is determined to follow the boy and bring him back to school. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 08/22/2000 Run time: 106 minutes Rating: G Director: Zhang YimouZhang Yimou's (Raise the Red Lantern) tale of a plucky adolescent substitute teacher in a rural Chinese village, cast entirely with nonactors and shot on location, is an astute example of censorship politics. Taking on touchy issues with a veneer of can-do spirit and happy-ending fantasy, his film is at once rousing and eye-opening. Wei Minzhi is a stubborn young woman who takes a substitute teaching job in a tiny provincial town because they can't afford anyone else. When one troublemaking boy heads off to the city to help support his starving family, it's not a sense of responsibility that drives her rescue mission, it's money: She won't receive her bonus if any students are missing. Her efforts to raise money for the city trip pulls the class together in a sense of purpose, and even drives the lessons, but when she finally reaches the city she's shocked to discover an urban jungle of lost and runaway kids. Yimou shoots with an easy naturalism that suggests a well-intentioned docudrama in spots, due to narrative contrivances and a few self-conscious performances, but his compromises ultimately make his shocking look at China's rural poverty, adolescent workers, urban juvenile homelessness, and woefully underfunded educational system more potent. In the heat of the film's uplifting climax, the once-mischievous boy pulls the film back down to earth with his reflection on his big-city adventure: "I had to beg for food. I'll never forget that." --Sean Axmaker
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