Chongqing Blues / Rizhao Chongqing
2010, 35 mm, Color (16th Festival on Wheels)
Director(s)
Wang Xiaoshuai
Country(s)
Çin Halk Cumhuriyeti
Genre(s)
Other
Script
Yang Yishu, Wang Xiaoshuai
Photography
Wu Di
Editing
Yang Hongyu, Fang Lei
Music
Animation
Cast
Wang Xueqi, Fan Bingbing, Qin Hao, Zi Yi, Li Feier
Production
Hsu Hsiao-Ming, Wang Xiaoshuai
Distribution
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Awards
Plot
Captain Lin, at his return from a six months voyage, is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo was
gunned down by the police. He wants to know what happened but he hardly knew his own son as
he had left years ago. Thus he starts a journey back to a city he once lived, a journey of paternal
exploration and confession.
“Chongqing is a very unusual municipality. It is one of the main cities in the Sichuan province,
inland China. It is truly representative of contemporary China, full of life, yet it has remained
working-class and modest. With its big low-quality construction buildings, it is a more blue-collar
town whose atmosphere is particularly friendly. I wanted to tell the story of a man who is always
on the move. When he lived in Chongqing, he was often away, working on riverboats. After his
divorce, he left to live further away, down the river. He now lives by the sea, and this is where
he navigates.
I really love the English word “Blues” as in the movie title. Chongqing is a city permanently beset
by fog. It’s rare to see the sun. It is even said that it is the fog capital. Haze, clouds and a heavy
sky make people a little blue all the time. And this is the kind of “blues” that the father feels deep
inside.”
Wang Xiaoshuai