Chinese Movie Night: Zhou Yu’s Train (PG-13)

The University of Idaho Confucius Institute would like to invite you to join us for our monthly Chinese Movie Night! Each film will have a brief introduction by our visiting South China University of Technology instructors, who are specialists in Chinese cinema and film culture. The audience will have the opportunity to discuss the film and its cultural significance at its conclusion. Admission is free and open to the public. Zhou Yu’s Train August 10, 7:00 PM A beautiful poem ignites a love affair between artist Zhou Yu and a government worker named Chen Qing. Even though they are separated by a great distance, Zhou Yu takes the train out of China’s rural Northwest to see Chen Qing every weekend. But Zhou Yu’s strong will and Chen Qing’s sensitive soul are mismatched and one day a chance encounter on the train with a hedonistic man named Zhang Qiang pulls the three into a love triangle of conflict, desire, and uncertainty. A 2002 film Directed by Zhou Yu and starring Li Gong, Tony Ka Fai Leung and Honglei Sun. Free Admission