The Sun Also Rises (2007 film)

The Sun Also Rises
Poster for The Sun Also Rises
Traditional Chinese太陽照常升起
Simplified Chinese太阳照常升起
Hanyu Pinyintài yáng zhào cháng shēng qǐ
Directed byJiang Wen
Written byJiang Wen
Shu Ping
Guo Shixing
Ye Mi
Produced byJiang Wen
Albert Lee
StarringJaycee Chan
Joan Chen
Jiang Wen
Anthony Wong
Zhou Yun
CinematographyPin Bing Lee
Yang Tao
Zhao Fei
Edited byZhang Yifan
Music byJoe Hisaishi
Release dates
  • 3 September 2007 (2007-09-03) (Venice)
  • 21 September 2007 (2007-09-21) (China)
Running time
116 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin

The Sun Also Rises (Chinese: 太阳照常升起; pinyin: Tàiyáng zhàocháng shēng-qǐ) is a 2007 Chinese film directed, produced and co-written by Jiang Wen. It stars Joan Chen, Anthony Wong, Jaycee Chan, and Jiang himself. This movie is the polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.

The film was screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival and nominated for Golden Lion but lost to Ang Lee's historical thriller Lust, Caution. It also premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, and was nominated for Achievement in Cinematography at the 2007 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.