The Road Home (2000)full movie

89 min - Drama | Romance
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Produced by Zhang Weiping
Zhao Yu
Screenplay by Bao Shi
Based on Remembrance by
Bao Shi
Narrated by Sun Honglei
Starring Zhang Ziyi
Sun Honglei
Zheng Hao
Zhao Yulian

The Road Home is the story of a country girl and a young teacher falling in love, and the teacher's death many years later that brings their son back from the big city for the funeral.
The film begins in black and white in present-day China when the son (Sun Honglei) returns to his village from the city upon hearing of his father's death. His mother, Zhao Di (Zhao Yulian), insists upon following the tradition of carrying the coffin back to their remote village by foot so that her husband's spirit will remember its way home. As the narrator, the son recounts the story of his parents' courtship, so famous that it has gained the status of a legend in the village. It is here the bleak black and white turns into vivid colors as the story shifts to the past.