''Roots and Branches'' (, , literally "My Brothers and Sisters") is a Chinese film released in 2001. It was the third highest grossing Chinese film of 2001 at the domestic box office,
[Yingjin Zhang, ''Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China'' (University of Hawaii Press, 2010), p. 71.] but was not well received critically.
[Ying Xiao, "Chinese Rock'n'Roll Film and Cui Jian on Screen", in ''The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics'', edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, Carol Vernallis (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 275-277.]
Plot
The parents of a family of four die in a blizzard and the children (two boys and two girls) are brought up separately. Twenty years later, the daughter who was adopted and taken abroad is returning to China as an internationally renowned classical musician and seeks to reconnect with her siblings, who are all living very different lives.
The father of the children, a music teacher, is played by rock star
Cui Jian, who wrote a song, ''Meng'' ("Dream"), especially to be performed by his "pupils" in the film.
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Cast
* Cui Jian
* Gigi Leung
Gigi Leung Wing-kei (Chinese: 梁詠琪, born 25 March 1976) is a Hong Kong singer and actress.
Early life
She was born at Tsan Yuk Hospital in Sai Ying Pun on 25 March 1976 and was given the name Leung Pik-chi () for superstitious reasons; as ...
as Qi Sitian
* Jiang Wu
Jiang Wu (born 4 November 1967) is a Chinese actor. He starred in Zhang Yimou's '' To Live'' (1994), and Zhang Yang's ''Shower'' (1999). He is the younger brother of Jiang Wen and is or was a member of the Beijing Experimental Theatre Troupe.
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as Qi Yiku
* Xia Yu as Qi Miao
* Chen Shi
References
External links
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2001 films
2001 romantic drama films
2000s Mandarin-language films
Chinese romantic drama films
2000s Chinese films
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