A Beautiful New World (1999)
美丽新世界
A satirical comedy about a country bumpkin who goes to the big city, and ends up teaching the cynical city folk a few lessons about basic human decency. The hero leaves home for the first time to go to Shanghai, to collect his lottery prize - a brand new apartment. However, when he arrives, he is told by the developers that his apartment block will take a year and a half to complete. He decides to find a job in Shanghai and wait for his apartment to materialise...
- Date of release
- 1999-02-19
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Shi Runjiu
Casting
- Jiang Wu — Zhang Baogen
- Tao Hong — Huang Jinfang
- Richie Jen — Xiaobai
- Wu Bai — Ah Liang
- Tong Zhengwei — Mrs. Cai
- Lin Dongfu — Real Estate Manager
- Lei Cheng — Ahua
- Niu Ben — Liu Azhu
Interesting facts
A Beautiful New World is a 1999 Chinese comedy film directed by Shi Runjiu. The film, Shi's first, was co-produced by Xi'an Film Studio and the independent Imar Film Company. It was Imar Film's second production, coming after 1997's Spicy Love Soup.
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