Better Days

Better Days (2019)

少年的你

You protect the world. I'll protect you.

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

Date of release
2019-10-25
TMDB
8.1 / 10 (592)
Runtime
2h 15m
Genres
Drama, Crime, Romance
Director
Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $223.9M
  • Budget: $12M
  • Earned 18.7× its budget
  • Based on: In His Youth, In Her Beauty
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 2

Better Days is a 2019 drama film directed by Derek Tsang and written by Lam Wing Sum, Li Yuan and Xu Yimeng. Based on the Chinese young adult novel In His Youth, In Her Beauty by Jiu Yuexi, the film stars Zhou Dongyu and Jackson Yee, and follows a high school girl struggling with severe bullying and the pressure of upcoming college entrance exams, whose life becomes intertwined with that of a teenage street thug.

Production

Better Days is adapted from Jiu Yuexi's novel In His Youth, In Her Beauty.

Production started in July 2018 and ended on September 10, 2018. Most of the film was shot on location in Chongqing.

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