Product Details

• Actors: Ping Ni, Quan Yuan, Haiying Sun, Yajun Xu, Zhijun Ge
• Directors: Yazhou Yang
• Writers: Wei Li
• Producers: Dashen Wu, Yan Yiyun
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Cantonese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Allumination
• DVD Release Date: June 6, 2006
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000F1IO02
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,753 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "For the Children" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertain Release Date: 07/17/2007 Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Nr

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars chinese cinema comes of age, January 24, 2007

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Daniel B. Clendenin (www.journeywithjesus.net) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: For the Children (DVD)

After her husband and child died, the peasant Meili Zhang founded a school for the children in her isolated, parched village in northwest China. She was not a teacher, but she did her best and she loved her kids. She founded the school, she says, "so that the kids may have hope." Xia Yu, a gorgeous young woman from Beijing a thousand miles away, and a "real" teacher, comes to help at the school. She corrects their pronunciation, teaches them some English, and encourages Meili to obtain a computer. Of course, mutual culture shock sets in. Xia stares in disbelief as the same pail of water is used to wash clothes, rinse your face, make tea with orange rinds, and water the donkey. Meili can only respond to her guest's strange ways with "Teacher Xia, you city people are strange." What transpires is an unfolding friendship of two women from radically different socio-economic and cultural contexts. Two sub-plots revolve around the men in their lives--Meili's love for the local "film projectionist" Wang Shu, and Xia's estrangement from her husband because of her growing affection for Meili and her school. Late in the film turn about is fair play when Xia takes the entire class of peasant kids to Beijing. In Mandarin with English subtitles.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Poinant, beautiful film, February 13, 2008

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Athensdog.com (Athens, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For the Children (DVD)

I was crying throughout the whole film. It is very powerful, and touching. It is very well done with superb acting. Be prepared for a moving and beautiful experience.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the Children Chinese Movie, March 4, 2010

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Jie Gao "Chinese Teacher" (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: For the Children (DVD)

My middle school students liked it. There is a lot of cultural information. Teachers should watch the movie with the students and pause it to give some explanations.