Sunflower
2005 · 129 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 729 VOTES · DIR. Zhang Yang
Overview
Sunflower is the story of the Zhang family in Beijing father, mother and son across three decades, centering on the tensions and misunderstandings between father and son. Nine-year-old Xiangyang is having the time of his life, free of adult supervision until the day he meets the father he can hardly remember. Having spent years away, he returns with strong ideas about his son learning to draw. But Xiangyang chafes under his father's constant rules and soon stages his own revolution against the lessons enforced.
Dialogue Timeline — 966 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:25 Push!
00:04:17 I'll teach you!
00:09:35 Come here and get some more!
00:13:30 I'll teach Xiangyang how to paint.
00:19:26 Wash your pants.
00:22:11 I'm frightened
00:25:35 Leave them here.
00:30:12 So does everyone else. Only you have your heads in the sand.
00:34:48 Hi, Auntie! Uncle!
00:44:17 This one is 80 cents.
00:51:43 No. I couldn't... What if someone saw it wouldn't look right.
00:58:00 Come here.
01:03:54 Did you bring the cards?
01:09:07 painted a portrait of Chairman Mao. It was so large!
01:14:11 Letter for Zhang Xiangyang!
01:25:25 My period is several days overdue. You think I might be pregnant?
01:29:32 we can still be some help while our health is good.
01:32:18 It's just that I get a little lonely...
01:38:31 Why didn't you tell us?
01:41:04 I just don't want to always have to do everything he tells me to...
01:45:25 You insist on drinking yourself drunk!
01:50:07 Old partner, you and I had a pretty tough time of it...
02:03:08 I wanted you to think the person who loved you the most
02:10:05 It's enough that we know he is out there somewhere.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed966
Dialogue density7.5 lines / min
First line00:00:25
Final line02:10:05
Production Record
DirectorZhang Yang
LanguageChinese
IMDb votes729