Director: Sun Zhou Runtime: 92 minutes Format: DVD Language: Mandarin with English Subtitles. Zhou Yu de huo che (Zhou Yu's Train) A Chinese love triangle, cleanly and clearly told, the step and pacing set up to the regional and background, not wimped out but not explicit. ZHOU YU'S TRAIN. Twice a week, Zhou Yu (Gong Li, Farewell My Concubine), a beautiful artisan, takes the train to faraway Chongyang, where she indulges in a torrid affair with Chen Ching (Tony Leung Ka-Fai, The Lover), her poet-lover. Zhou Yu's Train. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Zhou Yu's Train was released in 2004 on Friday, July 2, 2004 (). Zhou Yu's Train Posted By Richard C. Walls on Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:00 AM. The iconically placid beauty Gong Li from ”Raise the Red Lantern” usually represents all that’s cover-girl serene in Chinese art-house cinema. Sun Zhou's stylized Zhou Yu de Huoche (Zhou Yu's Train) is the story of a woman in love.Zhou Yu and teacher Chen Ching (Tony Leung Kar-Fai) fall in love.After Ching gives Zhou a poem he wrote for her, she begins taking a train ride twice a week to his home in order to have sex with him. Drama, Foreign, Romance. Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. A knotty, dreamy paean to romantic longing, Zhou Yu’s Train is at once ravishing and precise. A poetic and elegant piece, Zhou Yu’s Train tells a poignant love story between a woman and two men. Ceramics artist Zhou Yu (Gong Li) commutes regularly by train to see her lover Chen Qing (Tony Ka Fai Leung), a poet who lives in a town several hundred kilometers away. A good choice if you are looking to learn more about Chinese background and culture without sitting down with a textbook, and entertaining, too. Zhou Yu's Train ★★½ Zhou Yu de Huoche 2002 (PG-13)Gong Li stars in this slick romantic drama as porcelain painter, Zhou Yu, who's in love with teacher/poet Chen Ching (Leung Karfai). As such, Zhou Yu befriends Zhang … Zhou Yu is a strong-willed woman, whereas Cheng Qing is a sensitive soul. A knotty, dreamy paean to romantic longing, Zhou Yu's Train is at once ravishing and precise. Zhou Yu's Train boils down to a tale of two lakes, one real and the other imagined. ZHOU YU’S TRAIN is a romantic Chinese drama with a confusing story. Zhou Yu's Train Release Date: When was the film released? These differences, in addition to the growing disparity in their life situations, place an unspoken strain in their relationship, despite each truly loving the other. Because he lives in a distant village, Zhou takes the train twice a week so they can be together. 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