Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Blu-ray Movie

Overview

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)

Summoned to Tokyo by his daughter-in-law, Rie, village fisherman Gou-ichi Takata, arrives at a city hospital to find his son, Ken-ichi, bedridden by liver cancer. Though Gou-ichi attempts to use the visit as a catalyst to heal a decade-long dispute between the pair, stubborn Ken-ichi rejects his father's attempt at reconciliation outright. Subsequently handed a videotape by Rie before departing back to the countryside, Gou-ichi returns home unsuccessful in his efforts to build a bridge of peace between himself and his ailing son. Upon watching the videotape, a research project exploring the Chinese folk arts that was shot by Ken-ichi in the Southern province of Yunnan, Gou-ichi is oddly affected by the onscreen failure of his son in convincing well-known opera singer Li Jiamin (playing himself) to perform the titular song, a classic operatic piece espousing the values of friendship. Now determined to travel to Yunnan and videotape the performance that his son could not, Gou-ichi embarks on a life-changing quest that will not only give him a greater understanding of the relationship between himself and his own son, but set into motion a healing process that will also have a profound impact on the troubled opera singer and the man's long-lost illegitimate son as well.

Starring: Ken Takakura, Shinobu Terajima, Kiichi Nakai
Director: Zhang Yimou

Foreign	100%
Drama	Insignificant

Specifications

• Video

  Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
  Video resolution: 1080p
  Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
  

• Audio

  Mandarin: LPCM 2.0
  

• Subtitles

  English SDH
  

• Discs

  Blu-ray Disc
  Single disc (1 BD)
  

• Playback

  Region B (A, C untested)