How Is Your Fish Today?, also known as Jintian De Yu Zenme Yang?, is a 2007 Chinese film written by Xiaolu Guo and Hui Rao. It was directed by Xiaolu Guo. The film is a drama set in modern China, focusing on the intertwined stories of two main characters; a frustrated writer (Hui Rao) and the subject of his latest work, Lin Hao (Zijiang Yang). How Is Your Fish Today won 4 international awards and was well received by critics, but was not commerci...
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How Is Your Fish Today?, also known as Jintian De Yu Zenme Yang?, is a 2007 Chinese film written by Xiaolu Guo and Hui Rao. It was directed by Xiaolu Guo. The film is a drama set in modern China, focusing on the intertwined stories of two main characters; a frustrated writer (Hui Rao) and the subject of his latest work, Lin Hao (Zijiang Yang). How Is Your Fish Today won 4 international awards and was well received by critics, but was not commercially successful.
How Is Your Fish Today? tells the story of a famous screenwriter (Rao) whose film scripts have all been rejected by Chinese censors. He writes a script about a man named Lin Hao (Yang) for his producer, who expects it to be a Chinese version of The Fugitive. Upon reading Rao's arthouse script, the producer rejects it as the worst screenplay he has ever read. Rao is infuriated with the response and kills Lin's wife. Lin finds out while cheating on his wife and immediately sends Rao a thank you note. Rao is upset that Lin did...
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