Directed by:
Gan BiScreenplay:
Gan BiCast:
Wei Tang, Sylvia Chang, Vivien Li, Jue Huang, Yongzhong Chen, Hong-Chi Lee, Meihuizi Zeng, Chun-hao Tuan, Serge Martineau, Zezhi Long, Feiyang LuoPlots(1)
Oozing atmosphere with its noirish neon glow, the film chronicles the return of Luo Hongwu to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years before. Back for his father's funeral, Luo recalls the death of an old friend, Wildcat, and searches for lost love Wan Qiwen, who continues to haunt him. Sculpting time and space through virtuosic technical feats, Bi's film yields successive visual and aural delights. With talismanic cues and motifs of uncanny doubling, the film is bisected its first half recast in the second through a vertiginous, trance-inducing, hour-long single take in 3D. A hushed, hypnotic study of hazy memory, lost time, and flight and featuring the formidable Sylvia Chang as Wildcat's mother Long Day's Journey Into Night leads the viewer on a nocturnal, labyrinthine voyage, one that both reveals and conceals a world of passion and intrigue. (New Wave Films)
(more)Cast
Wei Tang
China
Best movies:
Lust, Caution (2007)
Finding Mr. Right (2013)
Swordsmen (2011)
Sylvia Chang
Taiwan
Best movies:
Legend of the Mountain (1979)
Aces Go Places II (1983)
Aces Go Places (1982)
Vivien Li
China
Best movies:
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
Saving Mr. Wu (2015)
A Touch of Sin (2013)
Jue Huang
China
Best movies:
Better Days (2019)
The Founding of a Party (2011)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
Yongzhong Chen
Best movies:
Kaili Blues (2015)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
The Wild Goose Lake (2019)
Hong-Chi Lee
Taiwan
Best movies:
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
Tigertail (2020)
Meihuizi Zeng
China
Best movies:
Moneyboys (2021)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
Only the River Flows (2023)
Chun-hao Tuan
Taiwan
Best movies:
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
First Love (2019)
Serge Martineau
Best movies:
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
The Walk (2015)
The Red Violin (1998)
Zezhi Long
China
Best movies:
Feiyang Luo
Best movies:
Kaili Blues (2015)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)