''The Foliage'' (), also known as ''Years Without Epidemic'', is a 2003 Chinese
romance film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...
directed by
Lü Yue and stars
Liu Ye,
Shu Qi
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Fang Bin
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Personal life
Fan ...
, and Qi Huan. The film is an adaptation of Chinese-American writer
Frank Shi's novel ''My First Love''.
It tells the love story of
sent-down youth
The sent-down, rusticated, or "educated" youth (), also known as the ''zhiqing'', were the young people who—beginning in the 1950s until the end of the Cultural Revolution, willingly or under coercion—left the urban districts of the ...
Liu Simeng and Ye Xingyu. The film premiered in China in 2003.
Plot
On her way back from a family visit, young female intellectual Xing-Yu (Shu Qi) meets the equally young and rebellious Si-Mong (Liu Hua) and the two fall in love. When Xing-Yu's childhood friend and lover Yuan gets into a fight with Si-Mong, Xing-Yu tries to make peace between the two jealous rivals. Her attempts for truce further draw her into a forbidden and passionate relationship instead.
Cast
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Liu Ye as Liu Simeng, a
sent-down youth
The sent-down, rusticated, or "educated" youth (), also known as the ''zhiqing'', were the young people who—beginning in the 1950s until the end of the Cultural Revolution, willingly or under coercion—left the urban districts of the ...
who falls in love with Ye Xingyu.
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Shu Qi
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as Ye Xingyu, Yuan Dingguo's girlfriend, when she meet Liu Simeng, they fall in love. She is in a love triangle with Yuan Dingguo and Liu Simeng.
* Fang Bin as Yuan Dingguo, Ye Xingyu's boyfriend.
* Qi Huan as Wei Hong
* Li Mengnan as Manager Wu
* Zhang Jing as Lian Yun
* Li Chengyuan as the Company Commander
* Liu Yiwei as Master Cui
* Chen Chuang as Lin Shan
* He Yunqing as Supply Chief
* Fu Xiaoyuan as the Political Instructor
* Xi Yang as Shaman
* He Qichao as Goupi (child)
* Cui Jun as Goupi (grown)
* Zhang Shimin as Yuan Xiaoyu (child)
* Li Lucen as Yuan Xiaoyu (grown)
* Zhu Kaige as the Library Curator
* Yao Jianyun as the Bus Driver
* Deng Wei as the Posseman
* Lei Yongda as the Posseman
* Hu Yousheng as Manager Hu
Production
Lü Yue, an
Oscar Prize nominee, ''The Foliage'' was his second film since he is a photographer turned director.
This film was shot in
Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture
Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture (; Hani: ; Yi: ꉼꉸꉳꆃꁈꆃꁈꊨꏦꍓ) is an autonomous prefecture in Southeast-Central Yunnan Province, China, bordering Vietnam's Lào Cai and Lai Châu provinces to the south. Its nam ...
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Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...
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Shu Qi
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plays a village girl in a love triangle with
Liu Ye and Fang Bin's characters.
Principal photography started in July 2003 and wrapped in September 2003.
Accolades
References
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Chinese romantic drama films
Films shot in Yunnan
Films set in Yunnan
2003 romantic drama films
2003 films
Films based on Chinese novels
Films directed by Lu Yue