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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767853514
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767853512
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 22, 2000
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 11473
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Zhang Yimou's (Raise the Red Lantern) tale of a plucky adolescent substitute teacher in a rural Chinese village, cast entirely with nonactors and shot on location, is an astute example of censorship politics. Taking on touchy issues with a veneer of can-do spirit and happy-ending fantasy, his film is at once rousing and eye-opening. Wei Minzhi is a stubborn young woman who takes a substitute teaching job in a tiny provincial town because they can't afford anyone else. When one troublemaking boy heads off to the city to help support his starving family, it's not a sense of responsibility that drives her rescue mission, it's money: She won't receive her bonus if any students are missing. Her efforts to raise money for the city trip pulls the class together in a sense of purpose, and even drives the lessons, but when she finally reaches the city she's shocked to discover an urban jungle of lost and runaway kids. Yimou shoots with an easy naturalism that suggests a well-intentioned docudrama in spots, due to narrative contrivances and a few self-conscious performances, but his compromises ultimately make his shocking look at China's rural poverty, adolescent workers, urban juvenile homelessness, and woefully underfunded educational system more potent. In the heat of the film's uplifting climax, the once-mischievous boy pulls the film back down to earth with his reflection on his big-city adventure: 'I had to beg for food. I'll never forget that.' --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Brilliant and beautiful
I don't know how this movie got into my Netflix queue, but it took my breath away. Brilliant and deceptively beautiful, and acted by "real people," not professional actors. What a lovely and realistic look at life in China, and what a moving depiction of a loving heart.
Not to be missed.
Rating: - THE CHINA YOU DON'T SEE IN THE NEWS!!
NOT ONE LESS is in the same category as The Children of Heaven and The Color of Paradise. If you like children (especially adorable Chinese children), are interested in education (anybody who's ever been a substitute teacher will definitely identify with Wei-students are no different in rural China than anywhere else when it comes to taking advantage of substitutes), interested in learning about other cultures (we should all be interested in China), then this is a wonderful film. Definitely a film ... Read More
Rating: - One of my favorite all time movies and a great story......
I fell all over myself about this movie. The thirteen year old substitute teacher is priceless and all the children were simply amazing to watch. The story itself is a real grabber and the storytelling is masterful.
Rating:  - Wonderful film from Zhang Yimou
Somewhat didactic and sentimental, this film from Zhang Yimou is nevertheless irresistible. An unusual foray from Zhang into realistic filmmaking, Not One Less tells the tale of a young teenager in a Chinese village who is named as substitute teacher in the local school when the head teacher has to visit her ailing mother. Her skills as a teacher are barely adequate, and her students are just a few years younger than she is, yet she makes up her obvious shortcomings as a teacher with an utmost zeal ... Read More
Rating: - no actors
What's beautiful about this movie is that the story is true and all the people in the village are real. They are not actors. In playing themselves in this movie, it brought a sense of reality to the story and the poverty issues in rural China. It is a simple story and yet, it is so moving. Very beautiful production.
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