Tiny Times (Chinese: ???), also known as Tiny Times 1.0 is the first installment of the film series written and directed by Guo Jingming and based on the best-selling novel of the same name also by Guo.
Tiny Times | |
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Directed by | Guo Jingming |
Produced by | Li Li An Xiaofen Adam Tsuei Zhou Qiang Angie Chai |
Written by | Guo Jingming |
Screenplay by | Guo Jingming |
Based on | Tiny Times 1.0 by Guo Jingming |
Starring | Yang Mi Kai Ko Amber Kuo Rhydian Vaughan Bea Hayden Evonne Hsieh Cheney Chen Li Yueming Jiang Chao |
Music by | Hou Zhijian |
Cinematography | Randy Che |
Edited by | Gu Xiaoyun |
Production company | He Li Chen Guang Media EE-Media Star Ritz Prods. H&R Century Pictures Beijing Forbidden City Film Le Vision Pictures (Tianjin) Le Vision Pictures Shenzhen Desen Intl. Media Amazing Film Studio Comic Ritz Film & TV Culture Mission Media Investment |
Distributed by | China Film Group Cooperation (China) Dasheng International Media (China) Le Vision Pictures Co. (China) |
Release date |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Country | China |
Language | Mandarin |
Budget | ¥45 million (estimated) |
Box office | ¥484 million (US$79.7 million) |
Screenplay
The four young women are classmates in high school and roommates in college. On campus, they start their internships and cope with a series of romantic affairs. After graduation, they continue their correspondence, suffused with misunderstanding and jealousy. However, they have all changed significantly.
After graduation, Lin Xiao settles into her job as an editorial assistant at a fashion magazine and acclimatizing herself to the glamorous, high-octane world of haute couture. She meets her demanding and cold boss, Gong Ming, whose melancholic persona is described by Lin Xiao as “a distant, lonely planet in the universe”. Her work puts her relationship with her high school sweet heart, Jian Xi in peril.
Meanwhile, Gu Li faces struggle in her relationship with Gu Yuan at the intervention of his mother, who seeks to marry him off to an even wealthier family. Nan Xiang paints to support her fashion design studies, while at the same time struggle with her on-and-off relationship with abusive boyfriend Xi Cheng. Wan Ru worries that her aspirations in life are never really made certain, and the fact that she might not get a boyfriend.
- Yang Mi as Lin Xiao
- Kai Ko as Gu Yuan
- Amber Kuo as Gu Li
- Rhydian Vaughan as Gong Ming
- Bea Hayden as Nan Xiang
- Evonne Hsieh as Tang Wanru
- Cheney Chen as Zhou Chongguang
- Li Yueming as Jian Xi
- Jiang Chao as Xi Cheng
- Kitty Shang as Kitty
- Calvin Tu as Wei Hai
- Wang Lin as Ye Chuanping
- Ding Qiaowei as Yuan Yi
Box office
The film grossed US$79.7 million at the Chinese box office.
Accolades
Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
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China Movie Channel Media Awards | Best Feature | Won (tied) | |
Best New Director | Guo Jingming | Won | |
9th Chinese American Film Festival | Golden Angel Award: Best Feature | Won |
Song Category | Song Name | Singer | Notes |
Theme song | ???? | Sodagreen | |
Ending theme song | ???? | Echo | |
Soundtrack | ???? | Yisa Yu | |
????? | Liu Xin | ||
???? | Cheney Chen | ||
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? | Fu Mengni | ||
?? | Vision Wei | ||
Are you with me | Gao Kaiwei | ||
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Go | Julia Wu | ||
Love Come Undone | |||
Auld Lang Syne | |||
Whatever | |||
Roller Coaster | Terence | ||
Everything | |||
Everybody Feel Like Dancing | |||
?? | Sodagreen |