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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)

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The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.

Cast & Crew

Director
Wayne Wang
  • Profile picture of Henry O
    Mr. Shi Henry O
  • Profile picture of Yu Feihong
    Yilan Yu Feihong
  • Profile picture of Vida Ghahremani
    Madame Vida Ghahremani
  • Profile picture of Pasha D. Lychnikoff
    Boris Pasha D. Lychnikoff

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Keywords

  • daughter
  • china
  • persia
  • retiree
  • divorce