Coming Home [Blu-ray]

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Lu (Chen Daoming) and Feng (Gong Li) are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. When Lu is released years later, he returns home to find his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize him, she still patiently awaits her husband’s return. A stranger within his own family, Lu is determined to awaken his wife’s memory through gentle displays of unconditional and eternal love.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4.96 ounces
Audio Description: ‏ : ‎ English
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 35234725
Director ‏ : ‎ Yimou Zhang
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 49 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 8, 2016
Actors ‏ : ‎ Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Huiwen Zhang
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Portuguese, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Producers ‏ : ‎ Jia Yueting, Li Li, Jerry Ye, William Kong, Zhang Zhao
Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01ABD498Y
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
4.5
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A great movie
Review: This is a great movie with beautiful acting, solid story, and superb directing. Yimou Zhang proved again he is a master director.

Reviewer: Customer A
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beautiful and sad
Review: This movie is really beautiful but also profoundly sad. Gongli is of course, perfect as always as the protagonist with memory issues. The acting is stellar. Great movie about what love should be like!

Reviewer: Steve
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another winning collaboration
Review: The stunningly successful team of Chinese actress Gong Li and director Zhang Yimou come together once again to produce another beautiful movie to add to their legacy.Set against the Cultural Revolution and the years in the aftermath, Coming Home (based on the story by noted Chinese writer Geling Yan), focuses on a husband and wife who are separated when the husband Lu (a brilliant, understated performance by Chen Daoming) is sent away for “re-education,” leaving his wife Feng (the incomparable Gong Li) and young daughter Dan Dan behind. Ten years later, a brief encounter occurs and the repercussions from that meeting form the basis for the rest of this emotionally engaging and heartbreaking character study.Superficially, Coming Home is a heart-rending love story. Underneath, it speaks to the tragedies that linger long after the political landscape has shifted. It amazes me that Yimou is able to produce these movies in todayâs China, despite the governmental oversight of all art (the film won the Golden Lotus for best movie in 2014). While not an in-your-face indictment of the policies that underlie the plot, it does force the viewer to consider the long-term effects of Maoâs years in power. Regardless, Coming Home is a gorgeously filmed, emotionally draining, and thought-provoking powerhouse of a film.The Blu-ray disc offers a commentary from the director as well as a Q & A with him from the Toronto Film Festival.

Reviewer: Movie/Book Addict
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I can’t recommend this movie highly enough
Review: I caught myself watching this movie (like Red Lantern) because one moment led to another to another and then I couldn’t stop watching…..and i don’t think i breathed much through this movie either. This movie is all about subtlety – little said but so much in facial expressions. I’ve now watched several movies with Gong Li and the director and being an English-only speaker I think enhances my attention to the detail this pair brings to the screen. Yes i read the English subtitles but I could almost watch the movie without them. I can’t recommend this movie highly enough. I bought the DVD, as I did with Raise the Red Lantern.

Reviewer: maiden pa.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Chinas best actress delivers again Spoilers.
Review: Just another great movie by Gong Li and Zhang Yimou. Political prisoner husband comes home but wife has Alzheimers and can’t remember him. This is another great acted and well shot movie by Zhang and Gong Li. I own all of her movies and she never disappoints. To Live, Raise The Red Lantern, Ju Dou, Red Sorghum, Farewell My Concubine and Shanghai Triad.

Reviewer: Antonio Montes
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Gong Li (Li Gong)
Review: Repetitive sentimental nonsense with some interesting historical background.

Reviewer: Michael J. Lee
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Zhang Yimou’s Subtle Protest Against China’s Cultural Revolution
Review: China’s greatest film director, Zhang Yimou, tells the story of an anti-climactic homecoming for a released political prisoner in Coming Home. Powerful portrayals by the lead male and female players, Chen Daoming as Lu Yanshi and Gong Li as Feng Wanyu, as a doomed couple whose marriage has been wrecked by the harshness of the Cultural Revolution, lift the film to the level of the memorable. The prisoner finds his wife is suffering from amnesia and does not recognise him and, with infinite patience, he tries to awaken her memory of their love. Although slightly static in its latter sections, this film stands as a subtle social commentary embedded within a humane story of struggle.

Reviewer: Viewer Choices
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Forever Yours
Review: The is a love story that will grip your heart. The wife loses her memory but faithfully goes to the train station to meet her newly released imprisoned husband. Her husband did arrive sometime earlier and tries to restore her memory of their life together. Although she never does remember, he faithfully stands by her.

Reviewer: MICHEL LECLERC
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: J’ai dÃ©jÃ donnÃ© mon avis.

Reviewer: Jan Eriksen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Every is fine.

Reviewer: Ho Thi Tuyet Lan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Elle attends son retour – Lui attends qu’elle se souvienneCette courte phrase est le rÃ©sumÃ© Ã©mouvant de ce film.Je l’ai vu ce filme en la prÃ©sence de lâactrice Gongli Ã MK2 BibliothÃ¨que.Et Ã ce jour, je suis hyper contente d’avoir ce DVD, au prix trÃ¨s compÃ©titif ( car il y bien 1 DVD Blu-Ray et 1 DVD classique, avec le sous titre en FranÃ§ais.)Les acteurs (surtout Mme Gongli ) interprÃ¨tent magistralement les rÃ´les.Malheureusement, ce n’est pas que c’est une histoire d’amour tragique,C’est la vie tragique que subissent tous les Chinois au quotidiens !La collaboration de Zhang Yimou et Gong li a encore permis la naissance d’un nouveau merveilleux film.Mon avis :c’est une excellente leÃ§on de vie Ã mÃ©diter …et Ã suivre pour positiver )Film certe trÃ¨s triste mais Ã voir absolument pour tous ! Bon WE !

Reviewer: Graeme R Addicott
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The lovely Gong Li as an assertive rural woman determined to right an injury suffered by her husband. She travels to regional cities, and ultimately Beijing to seek an apology. Well acted, with strong women characters

Reviewer: Cookie
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Very sad and romantic story