Grain in Ear

Mang zhong, feature film, 2005.

DIRECTED BY: Lu Zhang

Grain in Ear

CAST:
Lianji Liu (Cui),
Bo Jin (Chang-ho),
Guangxuan Zhu (Kim),
Tonghui Wang (Wang)

SCRIPT:
Lu Zhang

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Yonghong Liu

Synopsis:
A young single mother of Korean descent lives in China barely making ends meet. She survives by selling the workers by the road traditional Korean dish kimchi. Her son, whose father is in jail, doesn't understand this difficult position. Without any support, helpless, she starts a relationship with a married man of Korean descent. Instead of finding happiness, the affair brings her problems with her son and leads to inevitable tragedy.

35 mm, color, 109 min