Together (2002 film)

Together Chinese pinyin H n zi yq is a 2002 Chinese drama film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Tang Yun, Liu Peiqi, Chen Hong, and Wang Zhiwen. The film premiered on September 10, 2002 at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was commercially released in China ten days later.

Liu Cheng Liu Peiqi is a widowed cook making his living in a small southern town in China. His thirteenyearold son, Liu Xiaochun Tang Yun, is a violin prodigy. In the hope that Xiaochun might find success as a violinist, Liu Cheng and Xiaochun travel to Beijing to participate in a competition organized by the Childrens Palace, an arts institution for school children. Even though Xiaochun emerges fifth, he is denied admission into the conservatory as he does not have Beijing residency. Determined to realize his hopes for Xiaochun, Liu Cheng persuades Professor Jiang Wang Zhiwen, a stubborn and eccentric teacher from the Childrens Palace, to take Xiaochun as a private student.In the subsequent days, Xiaochun makes friends with Lili Chen Hong, a young and attractive woman living upstairs. Lili does not have a regular job but lives off the rich men she dates. However, her heart lies with Hui Cheng Qian, her smoothtalking, cheating boyfriend. After Lili finds out about Huis affairs in the presence of Xiaochun, Xiaochun sells his violin to a shop, buys a fur coat that Lili fancies, and tells Hui to give it to her as a consolation. ........

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