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- Program Title: Zhou Yu's Train
- EASC Code: CZ-01
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: China
- Language: Mandarin
- Subtitles: English
- Subject: Movie & TV Drama
- Program Type: Feature
- Media Type: DVD & VHS
- Director: Sun Zhou
- Producer: Huand Jianxin / Sun Zhou
- Release Date: 2003
- Running Time: 90 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: Gong Li, the female icon of modern Chinese cinema, teams up again with Sun Zhou, following their collaboration on the moving and award winning drama Breaking the Silence. She give a stupendous performance in possibly the most sensual role of her career, as a woman caught between two lovers, and two dimensions of desire. Zhou Yu, a ceramic artesian in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy, sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate lover with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang, and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hurtles through a dark tunnel of no return
- Data Entry Date: 5/20/2003