A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

2007•1h 23m•6.0/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(25)

The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.

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Production

North by Northwest Entertainment

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Henry O

Henry O

Mr. Shi

Yu Feihong

Yu Feihong

Yilan

Vida Ghahremani

Vida Ghahremani

Madame

Pasha D. Lychnikoff

Pasha D. Lychnikoff

Boris

Jared Wagner

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