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Released
2005 · FILM

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

Directed by
Yimou Zhang
Written by
Yimou Zhang, Jingzhi Zou
Runtime
109 min
Language
ZH
Drama

Synopsis

Takada, a Japanese fisherman, has been estranged from his son for many years. When the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer, his daughter-in-law, Rie, calls him to the hospital. As he navigates a series of obstacles and relationships, he finds himself unexpectedly drawn closer to both an understanding of himself and of his son.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Long ChengShot by Xiaoding ZhaoScored by Wenjing GuoDesigned by Li Sun

Box Office

2005 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$3.8M

Budget$7.5M
Worldwide gross$3.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der einsame Tausendmeilenrittde
  • Qiān Lǐ Zǒu Dān Qíde
  • Qiān Lǐ Zǒu Dān Qíen
  • Riding Alone for Thousands of Milesen
  • La Búsquedaes
  • Riding Alone : Pour un filsfr
  • Mille miglia lontanoit

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