24 City

24 City
Cannes Film Festival poster
Traditional Chinese二十四城記
Simplified Chinese二十四城记
Literal meaningstory of twenty-four city
Hanyu Pinyinèrshísì chéng jì
Directed byJia Zhangke
Written byJia Zhangke
Zhai Yongming
Produced byJia Zhangke
Shozo Ichiyama
Wang Hong
StarringJoan Chen
Lü Liping
Zhao Tao
Chen Jianbin
CinematographyYu Lik-wai
Wang Yu
Edited byLin Xudong
Kong Jinglei
Music byYoshihiro Hanno
Lim Giong
Distributed byMK2 Diffusion
Cinema Guild (USA)
Release dates
  • May 17, 2008 (2008-05-17) (Cannes)
  • March 6, 2009 (2009-03-06) (China)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryChina
LanguagesMandarin
Sichuanese
Shanghainese
Box office$396,044[1]

24 City (Chinese: 二十四城记) is a 2008 Chinese film directed and co-written by Jia Zhangke. The film follows three generations of characters in Chengdu (in the 1950s, the 1970s and the present) as a state-owned factory gives way to a modern apartment complex. The film was also known as The Story of 24 City during production.[2]

  1. ^ https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=24city.htm BOM
  2. ^ China Film Journal Staff (2008-03-26). "The World Is Not Enough: Has Jia Zhangke Permanently Left the Art House?". China Film Journal. Archived from the original on 2008-06-28. Retrieved 2008-04-26.