The Hedgehog (2024) Movie Script
This is me.
My name is Zhou Zheng.
This is Wang Zhantuan.
My uncle.
My grandma thinks he's a bit off.
He's a constant worry for my aunt.
The story of how he started acting weird
began in the 1980s.
When he was young,
he was infatuated with the mysterious sea.
To chasing his dream,
he went to Dalian port and
worked as a porter for 5 years.
Later, he finally got the chance
to work on an ocean-going freighter,
but he ended up in trouble
on his very first voyage at sea
for reporting a smuggling incident.
All this happened before I was born.
Director Wu!
Still working on my expose materials?
Writing a poem?
I've figured it out.
I swear, I won't tell anyone.
Please let me out.
You won't tell anyone what?
You mean report my smuggling?
Wang Zhantuan...
- "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
- You can see the sea from the docks,
why insist on working on a ship?
I want to see the Pacific, like in the novel.
But I'm afraid
I have to keep you here a little longer.
I need your cooperation.
Actually you're on the Pacific now.
Such a pity...
you can't see it.
For 2 whole months,
Wang Zhantuan crossed the Pacific by the ship.
But from sailing to returning,
he had only seen this wave on the cup.
You can come out.
Arrived?
Are you insane?
Arrived?
All departments help with...
Arrived!
Arrived?
Yeah.
Arrived where?
Dalian, China.
It shouldn't be!
It shouldn't be!
It shouldn't be!
It shouldn't be!
It shouldn't be!
What's he doing?
It shouldn't be!
It shouldn't be!
Get him down.
You guys just wait
for the punishment from the limitless sea.
Goodbye Wang Zhantuan.
That day, Wang Zhantuan bid a complete
farewell to the sea.
After my aunt brought him home,
my cousin was born.
Wang Zhantuan named his son
Wang Haiyang (Ocean).
5 years has gone.
After you recommended Zhantuan to work here,
he's doing well.
Now he can teach you.
Brother Wu,
you can work here.
About the time you were in jail...
I won't tell anyone.
It's okay.
Have a seat.
Wang Zhantuan.
Wang Zhantuan.
Look who's here.
Director Wu!
Are you going to take me back to the ship?
Just call me Wu.
I'm also off the ship.
"Power plant"
My life took a wrong step, too.
Okay, I'll let you guys catch up.
Zhantuan...
back then...
I confiscated your book.
I should give it back to you.
This...
I've memorized it.
There's a letter here too.
After you left the ship,
Comrade Chen sent you this letter to the dock.
I've kept it for you.
I hope I didn't cause you any delay.
I come from the wilderness.
To the ocean I intend to go.
But life...
has blocked my way.
This poem you wrote 5 years ago, is so good.
Zhantuan...
Zhantuan...
Zhantuan...
Zhantuan!
Where are you going?
Zhantuan!
The Pacific Ocean.
Nobody knows where Wang Zhantuan went.
By the time he got back home,
my younger cousin had been born.
He named his daughter Wang Hai'ou (Seagull).
A decade has gone,
I am already 7 years old
Your big sister...
why can't she divorce Wang Zhantuan?
Is there a legal problem?
There's still Hai'ou and Haiyang to consider.
She can't divorce just like that.
My elder sister has real
feelings for Wang Zhantuan.
You don't understand.
I don't understand.
He was normal on land.
What made him go crazy on the ship?
Because he was provoked.
By who?
The ocean?
What is it to do with the ocean?
Don't say such things in front of kid.
Pick this one. This one.
On this day,
Wang Zhantuan suddenly came into my life.
Want to play again?
Pick this one. --This one.
A whistle.
Uncle...
Call me Wang Zhantuan.
Where's my mom?
Working overtime.
Where's my dad?
Working overtime.
Wh...whe...
Where's my grandma?
Playing mahjong, overtime.
Stutterer. -- Stutterer...
Come on, let's go.
And there's the crazy guy.
I don't want you to pick me up.
I can walk myself.
Eat chicken racks?
Did I tell you...
I used to be in the navy.
A submariner.
I've been to all five oceans.
Do you know which is the biggest?
The Pacific Ocean.
Mine!
It belongs to whoever picked it.
I paid for it.
I bought you chicken racks.
Cheater.
What are you doing?
Borrowing a taste.
Your aunt won't let me smoke.
What's that fishy smell?
Yingzi, you're back.
Hello everyone.
Who left the fish there?
It's gonna get grilled.
Your brother-in-law brought them.
A normal person wouldn't do such thing.
Mom, where's Zhou Zheng?
He's not back yet.
Didn't you pick him up?
Your brother-in-law wasn't busy,
so I asked him to go.
You asked Zhantuan to pick up Zhou Zheng?
He seemed normal now.
He even thought to bring me fish.
Zhou Zheng finishes school at 4:30
now it's 8:00. You're killing me!
Where are you going?
To look for him.
Yingzi, long time no see.
Where have you been?
Why didn't you come home after school?
How dare you run off!
No, he didn't. We were together the whole time.
Stop! He's back in one piece.
You shouldn't beat the child.
He's my child.
I'll beat him when I should.
Come back here.
Get down!
Zhou Zheng, come back here.
Come over.
Get down...
Get down...
Get down...
As for you...
just go home.
Otherwise
Xiuling will be worried too.
Goodbye mom, bye Yingzi.
Bye Zhou Zheng.
Mom, you call this a normal person?
You just stay away from him.
Got it?
Speak!
Got it?
G...g...got...
Don't stutter!
The more you hit him, the more he stutters.
Wang Zhantuan.
Zhou Zheng, get down.
Get down.
The Nautilus submarine forges ahead.
Ceylon Island at the
southern end of the Indian Peninsula.
Grandma,
you still using this camera?
Take it if you want it.
Thanks grandma.
Aronnax accepted Captain Nemo's suggestion,
go to the pearl factory under the sea.
My brother-in-law's mind is really sharp.
He remembers everything he reads.
Suddenly a giant shark...
Wang Zhantuan, quiet down.
Suddenly, the giant shark attacks
the pearl hunters.
Captain Nemo grabs a dagger,
stands up and fights the shark.
Sister, I can take over for you.
No need, you should have a rest
after your flight.
Auntie,
is Shenzhen really fashionable?
Of course.
Let me tell you.
We Northeasterners in Shenzhen?...
It's three words:
old country bumpkin.
Hai'ou, Haiyang,
come over here and help.
Hello...
Hello.
Captain Nemo
is being smothered by the enormous shark.
His life is in danger.
Nyland suddenly throws his trident...
stabbing the shark in its heart.
The Captain saves the poor pearl hunter...
takes a bag of pearls from his pocket...
and gives it to him.
Here you go, here you go.
As a result, Aronnax felt
Captain Nemo
had two noteworthy characteristics.
One, he is incredibly brave.
Two, his spirit of sacrifice for humanity.
Then there was the time
we caught some flying fish.
They are the most legendary.
They can spread their wings
over the surface of the sea
and fly for several hundred meters
like silver shooting stars.
Fish can't fly.
They can.
They can't!
They can!
They can't!
Some can. There are also
some people who can fly.
There aren't.
There could be.
You're nuts.
There aren't enough onion.
I'll go get some.
You have a rest.
Hai'ou, go get some onions.
Ask my brother to go.
Haiyang, go.
I'll go!
I'll go!
Sister...
How about I go with you to
Shenzhen to sell clothes?
Forget it.
Are you as smart as my younger brother-in-law?
Well?
Well...
I'll think about it.
Haiyang, have you found a job yet?
Driving a bus. Someone recommended him.
How about looking for something else?
What takes him so long?
Haiyang, go have a look.
Quick, come have a look!
Wang Zhantuan is on the roof!
What's going on?
Let's go...
Dad!
Wang Zhantuan?
What are you doing up there?
Quick, come down from there!
What is he going to do?
He's gone nuts again.
My dad is not nuts!
Brother-in-law come down, don't fall!
What do we do?
Come down...
Don't blink!
I'm going to fly.
Wang Zhantuan!
I'm stuck.
I say...
Let's send him to a lunatic asylum.
Mom, Zhantuan isn't ill.
When he's normal, he's better than anyone.
Mom asked you to come?
It's got nothing to do with mom.
Going to a doctor means he's ill.
But he might not be ill at
all if he doesn't go.
This person isn't a doctor.
She's my teacher.
A fortune teller.
She started when she was a teenager.
For one visit...
how much does she charge?
Don't mention money, that's taboo.
It's about doing good deeds,
not money.
Elephant.
Wrong one.
Take it!
Let me cross the river.
Lao He, you are cheating again!
You shouldn't retract.
Shouldn't.
What's the big deal?
I'm going to cross the river!
You can't.
You can't.
I can!
You've lost.
You told me to cross the river!
Lao He, you can't afford to lose!
I'm done!
Should you?
You shouldn't.
Wang Zhantuan,
let's go home.
How about I introduce you to someone?
Who? Another doctor?
A teacher.
Someone to chat with...
to make you happy.
Just meet her, okay?
OK. Warmly welcome.
Really?
If you're happy, I'm happy.
Ms. Zhao.
Take a seat.
Amazing. She already knows
who she's come to see.
Of course, he's the only guy besides me.
Hi.
I'm Wang Zhantuan.
So, you've taken a life?
That's bullshit.
He isn't a villain.
Shut up.
So, have you taken someone's life?
He couldn't even kill a chicken.
I've killed fish at the docks.
Shut up.
Let the one possessing you talk to me.
Your left eye is bigger than your right eye.
Is he ill or not?
You're distracting Ms. Zhao.
That thing with him hasn't come.
It's in your house.
To my house then?
I'll go with you.
I'll go too.
Me too.
You can all come.
I'm not going.
Dongshun you shouldn't go.
Cook for me at home.
The old lady understands.
There it is.
Where?
None of you can see it.
Only you and me can see it, right?
Who is it?
He did take a life.
It's with him, and doesn't want to leave.
What can we do?
He's embarrassed to talk because I'm here.
Ask him in your room.
Our Bai family will handle this.
Why are you being so naughty?
Stay here. Be good.
There's something about this kid, too.
What do you mean?
Can you take a look at the boy too?
We're not there. He won't like it
if I say too much.
Now I know.
He really did take a life.
Really?
Yes, but only indirectly.
It's her.
Take it down!
Be careful.
Be careful.
I got it through.
Kneel.
Should I kneel?
Listen to Ms. Zhao.
Just follow her.
But I'm fine.
Zhantuan...
I'm telling you,
if you don't listen,
Bai San Ye can't help you.
Who is Bai San Ye?
Which ship is he on?
Fine.
Don't block the hole.
Bai San Ye has to go through it.
Thank you Ms. Zhao.
I'm going.
Ms. Zhao,
your family's name is Bai
but your surname is Zhao?
About that incense...
it's not sold anywhere else.
Only I can mail it to you from Tieling.
15 yuan per box.
Watch your step.
How can she be surnamed Zhao?
Before I married Zhantuan,
he had another girlfriend.
Her family wouldn't accept him.
So Wang Zhantuan broke up with her
and ran away to Dalian port in a fit of anger.
Later Zhantuan married me.
She married to a guy,
a drunk who often beats her.
In the end, she killed herself.
That's not Zhantuan's fault.
Before she killed herself,
she sent Zhantuan a letter.
It's actually her will.
That day, Wang Zhantuan said
goodbye to a long-lost friend.
Zhou Zheng, come here.
Come here.
I'll teach you.
Zhou Zheng!
Get back!
Zhou Zheng!
Yingzi, come for a swim.
Quick, come back!
I'm telling you...
Can you just stay away from him!
Do you hear me?
She must be stuck on something.
This is the day my parents
were laid off from the valve factory.
8 years passed...
I witnessed them starting over
from a street stall...
until they opened a small
noodle shop near the railway station.
This year, I failed three of my final exam.
I had to repeat a grade.
I cherish the power, yet I cherish beauty more.
Which hero would choose solitude?
A real man
with courage and bravery
longs for his name to be known
across the seven seas.
Life is short.
Let's drink until we're drunk.
Raise a toast to the beauty of the east
and to the Yellow River of the west.
Bring me wine!
Let's drink until we're drunk.
Forget about our troubles.
Bring me wine!
Let's drink until we're drunk.
Raise a toast to the beauty of the east
and to the Yellow River of the west.
Bring me wine!
Zhou Zheng.
Zhou Zheng.
Don't move.
The new semester is starting.
I want to give him a new start.
I can even make a mute talk.
Thanks doctor.
There's a regular prescription
and a more expensive one.
We want the expensive one.
Don't move.
I've seen a lot of kids like him.
Especially during adolescence.
If it's not treated...
it can affect his character.
You have to watch him closely.
Cheers.
Let me taste your medicine.
You can taste mine.
You're not sick.
Zhou Zheng's here.
How's your game?
You got off early today?
I have a dinner plan tonight.
So I've come back to change.
Sounds like a date.
Someone introduced to me
to a ticket seller.
Very good.
I've seen her picture.
She's not bad.
Zhou Zheng is here.
Mom, what have you been up to?
Hai'ou is ruined.
What do you mean?
She's seeing someone behind my back.
Isn't that a good thing?
Bullshit!
He's 10 years older and divorced.
He hangs out at the dance hall all day.
What does he do?
They work together.
Put a stop to it.
If I could I wouldn't be so angry.
Hai'ou talked back to me so I hit her.
She won't give him up.
She's fallen under that Li Guangyuan's spell.
Beating child... that shouldn't be.
That's easy for you to say.
You're no use to this family.
Where does he live?
I'll run him over with my bus.
Mind your own business.
Hai'ou is already ruined.
I'm going to lose you too?
So what can we do?
I'll go again tomorrow.
If they don't break up,
I'll fight him to the death.
I'll go.
Look at your lame leg!
Why won't you listen and go to the hospital?
You're embarrassing the kids.
You'd better not go in.
Wait me here.
My parents will never agree.
The important thing is...
do you agree?
It's what I want. I'll decide for myself.
Dad?
You...
I want a word with him.
You go over there.
Dad.
Go.
Uncle.
Call me Wang Zhantuan.
Uncle, I'll make you some tea.
Hai'ou didn't come home last night.
Uncle...
I'll tell you the truth.
Hai'ou is pregnant, three months.
Will you be good to Hai'ou?
I will.
If you say so, you have to do so.
Love can also kill.
I know from experience.
Then I'll learn a lesson from you.
When are you planning to get married?
Our parents have to agree first.
Let's make time to have a meal together.
I'll set it up.
Uncle...
What's wrong with your leg?
I've got a lump on my thigh.
Intersecting the groin.
It's affecting your walk?
I suspect it's ideological problem.
- "Cures For Strange Diseases"
- Can that cause a lame leg?
Is this your book?
Lend it to me.
Sure.
Zhou Zheng,
let's go home.
Your father is not an ordinary person.
I'm going to be a grandfather.
I'm going to be a grandfather.
I'm going to bbbbe...
an uncle.
When did Hai'ou get married?
Next month.
Next?
And she's already pregnant?
It's none of your business.
Lao He, you've made progress.
You're giving me a compliment?
That's rare.
He's already got the winning card.
He'll win for sure.
What winning card?
Hai'ou is pregnant.
Dongshun,
tomorrow you and Yingzi go to that meal for me.
I'm too embarrassed to go.
You're her uncle, what you say goes.
Okay.
Understood.
How old are you?
Are you in junior high or high school?
He's talking to you.
Did you lose your tongue?
He doesn't want to talk.
He is in first year of high school.
Third year of junior high.
I thought that was last year?
He had to repeat a grade.
Repeat a grade?
What's going on?
Guangyuan, let's have a drink.
Big sister told me to keep an eye on you.
It's okay. Today's a good day.
Uncle...
Dad! Here's to you.
Dad, I'll drink it up.
Got the marriage certificate yet?
It's too early to call him dad.
Brother...
Here's to you.
You're 4 years older than me.
But I've got to respect the family hierarchy.
I'll drink it up,
you take it easy.
I'm...
going for a piss.
Me too.
Dad, look here.
What's that?
Go get some branches.
For what?
Go get some branches.
Why are you roasting it?
I read it in a book,
eating it can fix my leg.
I can't go to the wedding like this.
I don't want to embarrass her.
Can that...
cure me too?
You...
aren't sick.
Zhou Zheng!
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
Zhou Zheng!
Dad!
Zhou Zheng.
Zhou Zheng,
what are you waiting for?
Hurry up.
No need to ask him, I won't let him go.
Why?
Friends and family will be there.
What if they ask
about repeating a grade.
Aren't you ashamed?
Keep your voice down.
If he really cared,
he wouldn't end up to repeat a grade.
I don't know who he takes after.
No need to be so sarcastic.
Okay, okay.
Come on.
Hurry up.
Be careful.
Be careful.
Watch the steps.
Slow down.
The bride is here.
Come on.
Get in this one.
Right.
Be careful.
Sister.
Our car is over there.
Haiyang.
Yes?
Haiyang.
Mom?
Give this to your dad.
Go.
Dad.
Dad.
Dad.
Dad.
Wedding cigarettes, from mom.
Sister...
I understand. He is afraid he'd
make Hai'ou embarrassed.
He is really considerate.
Zhou Zheng.
Zhou Zheng.
They locked me from the outside.
I can't get out.
Climb down the tree.
Wedding cigarettes.
Your aunt gave special permission.
Let me help you.
Get some luck from the wedding.
Look.
Ten red ones.
Your cousin's wedding cars.
Hai'ou...
Happy wedding day!
May you have a happy life!
Hai'ou...
Happy...
The next spring,
the boil on Wang Zhantuan's leg healed.
I don't think it had
anything to do with the hedgehog.
Wang Haiou's daughter was also born,
Wang Zhantuan named his granddaughter Li Mumu,
"Mu" means "bath".
It's no longer about the sea
but still related to water.
Nice to meet you, Li Mumu.
My name is Wang Zhantuan.
Stutterer!
Liu Bowen!
The idiot who repeated a grade.
Liu Bowen!
You've gone too far!
Zhantuan...
How about play a game with me.
Let me finish this game with Lao He.
Lao He's been dead for 7 days.
Here he is.
Get on your bike.
Stop!
Stop!
Help!
Wang Zhantuan!
Stop!
Dare you run...
How about now?
What are you doing?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Move.
Have you eaten?
Go home and have dinner.
Are you protecting him? Fine.
Bowen, let's go.
Go.
He's coming.
He's coming.
You go that way.
Wang Zhantuan.
My family thought Wang Zhantuan
had tricked me into running away
and called the police.
Thank you officer.
Say thank you.
Thank you.
Please keep an eye on him.
Don't let him get lost.
We won't trouble you again.
Call the police if you have any trouble.
Don't call us if there's no problem.
Go home now.
Thank you.
Wang Zhantuan.
What were you running for?
I was chasing Lao He.
Lao He is dead.
I couldn't catch him.
He ran too fast.
Yingzi, don't scold the child when you get home.
Talk to the doctor...
Zhou Zheng, come back.
I want to go out singing.
You can do whatever you want at home.
But you can't go out.
I want to go out singing.
Sing at home.
Come on, which song do you want to sing?
Pick it yourself.
Grounded again?
How did you...
get out?
Almost didn't get out.
Wang Zhantuan...
actually you...
have never been to the Pacific.
Zhou Zheng.
Zhou Zheng.
Your father-in-law is out of control.
He runs off all the time.
I'm so tired.
Mom...
we can bring the baby to our place tonight.
She can stay for a couple of days.
So you can get some rest.
Guangyuan,
you're well-read and knowledgeable.
Tell me...
Who is this Bai San Ye?
Mom...
The first time I came here
I saw that spirit tablet
but I didn't say anything.
Tell me now.
Well...
Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui.
The five spirits.
The Bai family spirit...
is the hedgehog.
Mom...
Let's move that spirit tablet away.
It's superstition.
Every time you ring, it's more headaches.
Ms. Zhao, he's even crazier,
I'm afraid something bad will happen.
Don't talk about the symptom, just tell me...
what has he done?
He...
Is it because he ate a hedgehog?
Please beg Bai San Ye...
What?
Bai San Ye is my father!
He ate my father!
- "Shenyang Psychiatric Hospital"
- Your whole family is going to hell!
- "Math exam" - Why did you repeat
a year again and still fail the exam?
I'm too ashamed to sign.
You still have an appetite to eat?
Don't drink soda all the time,
take your medicine.
Hello...
3 bowls of noodles, 2 flat, 1 thin
and 2 boiled chicken racks.
3 bottles of soda.
18 yuan.
Zhou Zheng?
Are you two classmates?
We used to sit at the same desk.
She's talking to you.
And you are?
He Miaozi.
Oh right...
Miaozi.
She's Ms. Yang's daughter.
Yes, hello auntie and uncle.
Yingzi, you're still charging her?
Oh, I forgot.
No... --It's okay.
Thank you, auntie.
Why did you come here after school?
It's such a long way.
I'm going over to Benxi with my friends.
We're catching a train at the North Station.
You're in high school already.
You're a big girl now.
Miaozi is getting prettier.
Look at her... --You're too kind.
Now look at yourself.
Let me get it, auntie
Sit down, sit down.
Help out and do some work!
It's hot!
Thanks.
Thanks.
"Yuying Junior High School"
You think you're not a repeat student
if you take it off?
Look at yourself.
You still can't focus on the right things.
What are you doing? Zhou Dongshun!
Don't cause a scene!
He's made me totally lose face.
Stop it...
What can I say?
Are you crazy?
Uncle Zhang bought...
a big steamed bun.
Uncle Li...
This winter,
Wang Zhantuan began to stay indoors.
Let's play chess.
Elephant, five back three.
Rook, eight across even.
Eat the elephant.
Rook, eight back two.
Cannon, six forward seven.
Take it.
Take it.
Don't be in a hurry to take
the sacrificed pieces.
It's snowing.
I confess.
I am an evil woman.
I'm even more evil than Madame Bovary.
But I can't help it.
I wish I could fall asleep and never wake up.
I drugged my husband.
I'm a sinner.
Guangyuan.
Mom.
Why are you here?
Is there any Chinese medicine...
that can help with sleep
and have less side effects?
Father-in-law sleeps all day. You still need...
No...
It's for me.
I haven't been sleeping well lately.
I've heard your song, my boy.
I understand your heart...
and your feelings.
Is it okay if I ask...
your name?
Now that you're my soulmate.
I've got another friend.
Spring Festival
without Zhantuan's singing.
It's quite boring.
Oh right, is brother-in-law better?
He still sleeps all day.
That's good.
At least he doesn't run off.
What're you doing? --Are you looking for trouble?
Okay, okay, he won't do it again.
Sister, what's wrong?
My husband divorced me.
Divorced?
I will give you this moment with music.
My aunt was stuck.
My parents and Wang Zhantuan were all stuck.
So was I.
Who wrote this?
Mom, why are you looking through my bag again?
I'm glad I did.
It's nothing to do with me.
Nothing to do with you?
Then why hide it in your bag?
Well?
You don't want to tell me?
I'll ask every class.
We'll see which one of us is embarrassed.
Mom!
Just tell me who!
I knew that
the poem I copied from Wang Zhantuan
Come in
caused me trouble.
Still waters run deep.
Zhou Zheng...
such a great poet you are.
This is your masterpiece, is it?
Come on,
read it to me.
Or I can read it for you.
A love poem.
I come from the wilderness.
To the ocean I intend to go.
The distant sirens are calling.
But life has blocked my way.
She has given me stories.
She has given me stories?
What story did she give you?
What story did you give him?
What are you doing!
What are you doing!
What are you doing, Zhou Zheng!
I come from the wilderness...
To the ocean I intend to go.
The distant sirens are calling...
But life has blocked my way.
She has given me stories.
I'll write poems to her.
Open the door!
Open the door!
Open the door!
Wang Zhantuan!
Open the door!
Wang Zhantuan!
Open the door!
Wang Zhantuan!
Open the door!
I'll never go to school again!
Wang Zhantuan!
Wang Zhantuan!
Wang Zhantuan!
Uncle...
You...
You're not a sacrificed piece.
I'm not one either!
Zhou Zheng...
What's going on?
I hate you!
I hate...
myself!
What...
Zhou Zheng, are you back?
What's wrong?
Be careful.
What are you doing?
Come out!
What are you doing?
A love poem!
I put up with you repeating a grade.
Now you try to be worst.
You want to be a pervert now?
Where are you going?
Stand still!
Zhou Dongshun!
I'm going to kill you!
What are you doing! -- Move aside!
Don't beat him!
I'm going to kill him!
Stop running!
Stop!
How dare you run!
Zhou Zheng was here just now.
It's raining hard.
So I just wanted to check
if he got home safely?
Yingzi?
What happened?
Yingzi?
Take it easy.
Tell me what happened?
Sister...
I'm afraid Zhou Zheng...
may have been possessed...
Xiuling.
"I'm taking the baby home,
don't run off anywhere."
That day,
Wang Zhantuan woke up
and upset everyone's plans.
What's going on?
Wang Zhantuan.
Wang Zhantuan.
What're you doing? Go home.
Let's go home.
Give me back the flag.
Give me back the flag.
He's my husband.
I'll talk to him.
Zhou Zheng!
Long time no see.
You've grown.
Ms. Zhao,
my old friend.
Step back!
You have a feud with our Bai family now.
You're only alive
because Bai San Ye showed mercy.
But I just saved your father's life,
doesn't that makes us even?
Tell him to leave.
Now it's your turn, Zhou Zheng.
Brother-in-law.
Zhantuan...
You...
Brother-in-law, please go inside.
Don't be angry, Ms. Zhao.
Come over here.
Go.
It's for your own good.
Come, kneel down here.
Go.
Kneel.
Zhou Zheng, kneel.
Zhou Zheng...
Should he kneel?
Zhantuan!
Let me talk to him...
Zhantuan!
I just want to talk to him...
Zhou Zheng...
Come back!
Just go inside please...
Come here and kneel!
Kneel!
Kneel!
Kneel!
Kneel!
Kneel!
Kneel!
Do you confess your sins?
Yes. He confesses.
Let him speak for himself.
Confess!
Confess!
Say it!
You won't speak, right?
I'll tell you what sins you've committed.
You've disobeyed your parents.
He's disobeyed his parents.
You refuse to follow the righteous path.
He refuses to follow the righteous path.
If you don't say it, we can't fix this.
Speak.
Speak.
Say it!
You refuse to speak, is it?
I'll speak!
I'll speak for him.
I respect your mother's sincerity
and forgive your youthful ignorance.
Quiet down!
If it weren't for Bai San Ye
having to pass through that hole...
I wouldn't be enduring this bullshit!
Stop!
Brother-in-law!
I'm begging you!
Now,
repeat after me.
One, calling the fox spirit,
two, calling the weasel spirit.
Say it.
One, calling the fox spirit, two,
calling the weasel spirit.
Let him say it.
Three, calling the python spirit,
four, calling the snake. Say it.
Three, calling the python spirit,
four, calling the snake.
Let him say it!
Five, calling the celestial judge,
six, calling the Yama.
Bai San Ye save this boy. Say it!
Five, calling the celestial judge,
six, calling the Yama.
You have a problem?
Say it!
Your...
Bai San Ye...
can't save me.
Because I...
ate it.
What are you talking about?
Wang Zhantuan ate it...
and I ate it too!
I ate...
your father.
Open the door!
Open the door!
What's going on?
Who called the police?
I'm Wang Zhantuan.
If there's a problem, we'd call the police.
Hello.
I'm a fifth year junior high student,
Zhou Zheng.
Have some water.
The food's ready.
Okay.
Let's eat.
Mom, where's dad?
Yeah, where's uncle?
Who knows what he's up to in there?
The distant sirens are calling.
It's time for me to go.
"Wang Zhantuan"
"Psychiatric Hospital Application Form"
- "Guardian's Signature: Zhou Xiuling"
- Auntie, when did you sign this?
Where did you find it?
I thought I've thrown it away.
Why... do you send him away?
She didn't want to send me away.
Dumplings are good for starting a journey.
Zhou Zheng.
We can still play chess when you come visit me.
I won't go.
Everyone can go.
You can't go!
This time I'm making the decision myself.
Xiuling, you don't have to worry
I'll run away from home any more.
And you two can live here after you get married
and keep your mom company.
No need to rush.
Visiting hours haven't started yet.
Not long after Wang Zhantuan
went to the asylum,
my cousin had an accident.
I've heard your song, my boy.
I understand your heart and your feelings...
I've heard your song, my boy.
I understand your heart and your feeling...
Haiyang!
Haiyang!
Brother-in-law.
Dad.
Where's Haiyang?
I thought it would be too much for you...
But I knew I had to tell you.
Amitabha.
Zhantuan!
He's disfigured.
Don't, sir.
Doctor.
His soul may has departed,
but his face remains in our hearts.
It's time to let go, and I'm not a doctor.
The road to heaven is long and winding.
Don't look back on the way to heaven.
Next.
Next.
Next.
Yours.
I got into high school.
Wang Zhantuan?
You... Are you okay?
What's the prize?
It was mine to start with.
It belongs to whoever wins it.
Next.
Take this...
Ticket please.
Zhou Zheng.
Drop by home sometimes to see your grandma.
No need.
I'm not going to die.
You don't have to come home.
Go as far as you can.
This year, I got into college.
I left home and Shenyang for good.
And I went further and further away.
Grandma... I'm back.
Have a look at this.
Looks good, doesn't it?
What country is your mother from?
Argentina.
My dad is from Shenyang.
Who'd have thought you're half from Shenyang?
I can't believe that I'm
going to be a grandmother.
Mom!
Zhou Zheng.
You were at the maritime academy for 4 years.
Then on a cruise for almost 3 years.
You've been to a lot of places, right?
Not just Asia.
Europe, Africa, America...
But you never came home.
Still a third officer?
I would have thought you'd be a captain by now.
What does a third officer actually do?
He's finally come home.
Let's be happy.
If you're happy you go ahead and eat.
What are you doing?
You should ask him.
7 years!
He hasn't gone back home once.
You've fallen under Wang Zhantuan's spell!
I...
Your dad asked me to give you this.
- "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
- He picked it up off the ground that day
and kept it for you
"A love poem"
until now.
It was so close...
It really was so close back then
that you became another Wang Zhantuan.
I am Wang Zhantuan.
Mom,
you were wrong.
Only Wang Zhantuan treated me
as a normal person.
Can you forgive us?
No, I can't.
I can't forgive you.
Dad...
Dad, will you name the baby?
How about Yangyang?
Yang...
which means sun?
No.
Yang, as in Shenyang.
Novice Zhou... there's someone here to see you.
Auntie...
I know why you did it.
You were afraid Wang Zhantuan would run away.
The distant sirens are calling.
It's time for me to go.
Zhou Zheng...
Zhou Zheng...
Zhou Zheng.
Come.
Zhou Zheng...
Zhou Zheng...
The year of my college entrance exams,
Wang Zhantuan ran away from the lunatic asylum.
He was not a sacrificed piece indeed.
My auntie said he went to look
for the Pacific Ocean in the novel.
Many years later,
when I was in a strange sea area
at the tip of Fort Spozzi
and on the bank of the Hun River in Shenyang.
Two similar winds blew through.
And I'm sure that we would never
be stuck by anything.
My name is Zhou Zheng.
This is Wang Zhantuan.
My uncle.
My grandma thinks he's a bit off.
He's a constant worry for my aunt.
The story of how he started acting weird
began in the 1980s.
When he was young,
he was infatuated with the mysterious sea.
To chasing his dream,
he went to Dalian port and
worked as a porter for 5 years.
Later, he finally got the chance
to work on an ocean-going freighter,
but he ended up in trouble
on his very first voyage at sea
for reporting a smuggling incident.
All this happened before I was born.
Director Wu!
Still working on my expose materials?
Writing a poem?
I've figured it out.
I swear, I won't tell anyone.
Please let me out.
You won't tell anyone what?
You mean report my smuggling?
Wang Zhantuan...
- "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
- You can see the sea from the docks,
why insist on working on a ship?
I want to see the Pacific, like in the novel.
But I'm afraid
I have to keep you here a little longer.
I need your cooperation.
Actually you're on the Pacific now.
Such a pity...
you can't see it.
For 2 whole months,
Wang Zhantuan crossed the Pacific by the ship.
But from sailing to returning,
he had only seen this wave on the cup.
You can come out.
Arrived?
Are you insane?
Arrived?
All departments help with...
Arrived!
Arrived?
Yeah.
Arrived where?
Dalian, China.
It shouldn't be!
It shouldn't be!
It shouldn't be!
It shouldn't be!
It shouldn't be!
What's he doing?
It shouldn't be!
It shouldn't be!
Get him down.
You guys just wait
for the punishment from the limitless sea.
Goodbye Wang Zhantuan.
That day, Wang Zhantuan bid a complete
farewell to the sea.
After my aunt brought him home,
my cousin was born.
Wang Zhantuan named his son
Wang Haiyang (Ocean).
5 years has gone.
After you recommended Zhantuan to work here,
he's doing well.
Now he can teach you.
Brother Wu,
you can work here.
About the time you were in jail...
I won't tell anyone.
It's okay.
Have a seat.
Wang Zhantuan.
Wang Zhantuan.
Look who's here.
Director Wu!
Are you going to take me back to the ship?
Just call me Wu.
I'm also off the ship.
"Power plant"
My life took a wrong step, too.
Okay, I'll let you guys catch up.
Zhantuan...
back then...
I confiscated your book.
I should give it back to you.
This...
I've memorized it.
There's a letter here too.
After you left the ship,
Comrade Chen sent you this letter to the dock.
I've kept it for you.
I hope I didn't cause you any delay.
I come from the wilderness.
To the ocean I intend to go.
But life...
has blocked my way.
This poem you wrote 5 years ago, is so good.
Zhantuan...
Zhantuan...
Zhantuan...
Zhantuan!
Where are you going?
Zhantuan!
The Pacific Ocean.
Nobody knows where Wang Zhantuan went.
By the time he got back home,
my younger cousin had been born.
He named his daughter Wang Hai'ou (Seagull).
A decade has gone,
I am already 7 years old
Your big sister...
why can't she divorce Wang Zhantuan?
Is there a legal problem?
There's still Hai'ou and Haiyang to consider.
She can't divorce just like that.
My elder sister has real
feelings for Wang Zhantuan.
You don't understand.
I don't understand.
He was normal on land.
What made him go crazy on the ship?
Because he was provoked.
By who?
The ocean?
What is it to do with the ocean?
Don't say such things in front of kid.
Pick this one. This one.
On this day,
Wang Zhantuan suddenly came into my life.
Want to play again?
Pick this one. --This one.
A whistle.
Uncle...
Call me Wang Zhantuan.
Where's my mom?
Working overtime.
Where's my dad?
Working overtime.
Wh...whe...
Where's my grandma?
Playing mahjong, overtime.
Stutterer. -- Stutterer...
Come on, let's go.
And there's the crazy guy.
I don't want you to pick me up.
I can walk myself.
Eat chicken racks?
Did I tell you...
I used to be in the navy.
A submariner.
I've been to all five oceans.
Do you know which is the biggest?
The Pacific Ocean.
Mine!
It belongs to whoever picked it.
I paid for it.
I bought you chicken racks.
Cheater.
What are you doing?
Borrowing a taste.
Your aunt won't let me smoke.
What's that fishy smell?
Yingzi, you're back.
Hello everyone.
Who left the fish there?
It's gonna get grilled.
Your brother-in-law brought them.
A normal person wouldn't do such thing.
Mom, where's Zhou Zheng?
He's not back yet.
Didn't you pick him up?
Your brother-in-law wasn't busy,
so I asked him to go.
You asked Zhantuan to pick up Zhou Zheng?
He seemed normal now.
He even thought to bring me fish.
Zhou Zheng finishes school at 4:30
now it's 8:00. You're killing me!
Where are you going?
To look for him.
Yingzi, long time no see.
Where have you been?
Why didn't you come home after school?
How dare you run off!
No, he didn't. We were together the whole time.
Stop! He's back in one piece.
You shouldn't beat the child.
He's my child.
I'll beat him when I should.
Come back here.
Get down!
Zhou Zheng, come back here.
Come over.
Get down...
Get down...
Get down...
As for you...
just go home.
Otherwise
Xiuling will be worried too.
Goodbye mom, bye Yingzi.
Bye Zhou Zheng.
Mom, you call this a normal person?
You just stay away from him.
Got it?
Speak!
Got it?
G...g...got...
Don't stutter!
The more you hit him, the more he stutters.
Wang Zhantuan.
Zhou Zheng, get down.
Get down.
The Nautilus submarine forges ahead.
Ceylon Island at the
southern end of the Indian Peninsula.
Grandma,
you still using this camera?
Take it if you want it.
Thanks grandma.
Aronnax accepted Captain Nemo's suggestion,
go to the pearl factory under the sea.
My brother-in-law's mind is really sharp.
He remembers everything he reads.
Suddenly a giant shark...
Wang Zhantuan, quiet down.
Suddenly, the giant shark attacks
the pearl hunters.
Captain Nemo grabs a dagger,
stands up and fights the shark.
Sister, I can take over for you.
No need, you should have a rest
after your flight.
Auntie,
is Shenzhen really fashionable?
Of course.
Let me tell you.
We Northeasterners in Shenzhen?...
It's three words:
old country bumpkin.
Hai'ou, Haiyang,
come over here and help.
Hello...
Hello.
Captain Nemo
is being smothered by the enormous shark.
His life is in danger.
Nyland suddenly throws his trident...
stabbing the shark in its heart.
The Captain saves the poor pearl hunter...
takes a bag of pearls from his pocket...
and gives it to him.
Here you go, here you go.
As a result, Aronnax felt
Captain Nemo
had two noteworthy characteristics.
One, he is incredibly brave.
Two, his spirit of sacrifice for humanity.
Then there was the time
we caught some flying fish.
They are the most legendary.
They can spread their wings
over the surface of the sea
and fly for several hundred meters
like silver shooting stars.
Fish can't fly.
They can.
They can't!
They can!
They can't!
Some can. There are also
some people who can fly.
There aren't.
There could be.
You're nuts.
There aren't enough onion.
I'll go get some.
You have a rest.
Hai'ou, go get some onions.
Ask my brother to go.
Haiyang, go.
I'll go!
I'll go!
Sister...
How about I go with you to
Shenzhen to sell clothes?
Forget it.
Are you as smart as my younger brother-in-law?
Well?
Well...
I'll think about it.
Haiyang, have you found a job yet?
Driving a bus. Someone recommended him.
How about looking for something else?
What takes him so long?
Haiyang, go have a look.
Quick, come have a look!
Wang Zhantuan is on the roof!
What's going on?
Let's go...
Dad!
Wang Zhantuan?
What are you doing up there?
Quick, come down from there!
What is he going to do?
He's gone nuts again.
My dad is not nuts!
Brother-in-law come down, don't fall!
What do we do?
Come down...
Don't blink!
I'm going to fly.
Wang Zhantuan!
I'm stuck.
I say...
Let's send him to a lunatic asylum.
Mom, Zhantuan isn't ill.
When he's normal, he's better than anyone.
Mom asked you to come?
It's got nothing to do with mom.
Going to a doctor means he's ill.
But he might not be ill at
all if he doesn't go.
This person isn't a doctor.
She's my teacher.
A fortune teller.
She started when she was a teenager.
For one visit...
how much does she charge?
Don't mention money, that's taboo.
It's about doing good deeds,
not money.
Elephant.
Wrong one.
Take it!
Let me cross the river.
Lao He, you are cheating again!
You shouldn't retract.
Shouldn't.
What's the big deal?
I'm going to cross the river!
You can't.
You can't.
I can!
You've lost.
You told me to cross the river!
Lao He, you can't afford to lose!
I'm done!
Should you?
You shouldn't.
Wang Zhantuan,
let's go home.
How about I introduce you to someone?
Who? Another doctor?
A teacher.
Someone to chat with...
to make you happy.
Just meet her, okay?
OK. Warmly welcome.
Really?
If you're happy, I'm happy.
Ms. Zhao.
Take a seat.
Amazing. She already knows
who she's come to see.
Of course, he's the only guy besides me.
Hi.
I'm Wang Zhantuan.
So, you've taken a life?
That's bullshit.
He isn't a villain.
Shut up.
So, have you taken someone's life?
He couldn't even kill a chicken.
I've killed fish at the docks.
Shut up.
Let the one possessing you talk to me.
Your left eye is bigger than your right eye.
Is he ill or not?
You're distracting Ms. Zhao.
That thing with him hasn't come.
It's in your house.
To my house then?
I'll go with you.
I'll go too.
Me too.
You can all come.
I'm not going.
Dongshun you shouldn't go.
Cook for me at home.
The old lady understands.
There it is.
Where?
None of you can see it.
Only you and me can see it, right?
Who is it?
He did take a life.
It's with him, and doesn't want to leave.
What can we do?
He's embarrassed to talk because I'm here.
Ask him in your room.
Our Bai family will handle this.
Why are you being so naughty?
Stay here. Be good.
There's something about this kid, too.
What do you mean?
Can you take a look at the boy too?
We're not there. He won't like it
if I say too much.
Now I know.
He really did take a life.
Really?
Yes, but only indirectly.
It's her.
Take it down!
Be careful.
Be careful.
I got it through.
Kneel.
Should I kneel?
Listen to Ms. Zhao.
Just follow her.
But I'm fine.
Zhantuan...
I'm telling you,
if you don't listen,
Bai San Ye can't help you.
Who is Bai San Ye?
Which ship is he on?
Fine.
Don't block the hole.
Bai San Ye has to go through it.
Thank you Ms. Zhao.
I'm going.
Ms. Zhao,
your family's name is Bai
but your surname is Zhao?
About that incense...
it's not sold anywhere else.
Only I can mail it to you from Tieling.
15 yuan per box.
Watch your step.
How can she be surnamed Zhao?
Before I married Zhantuan,
he had another girlfriend.
Her family wouldn't accept him.
So Wang Zhantuan broke up with her
and ran away to Dalian port in a fit of anger.
Later Zhantuan married me.
She married to a guy,
a drunk who often beats her.
In the end, she killed herself.
That's not Zhantuan's fault.
Before she killed herself,
she sent Zhantuan a letter.
It's actually her will.
That day, Wang Zhantuan said
goodbye to a long-lost friend.
Zhou Zheng, come here.
Come here.
I'll teach you.
Zhou Zheng!
Get back!
Zhou Zheng!
Yingzi, come for a swim.
Quick, come back!
I'm telling you...
Can you just stay away from him!
Do you hear me?
She must be stuck on something.
This is the day my parents
were laid off from the valve factory.
8 years passed...
I witnessed them starting over
from a street stall...
until they opened a small
noodle shop near the railway station.
This year, I failed three of my final exam.
I had to repeat a grade.
I cherish the power, yet I cherish beauty more.
Which hero would choose solitude?
A real man
with courage and bravery
longs for his name to be known
across the seven seas.
Life is short.
Let's drink until we're drunk.
Raise a toast to the beauty of the east
and to the Yellow River of the west.
Bring me wine!
Let's drink until we're drunk.
Forget about our troubles.
Bring me wine!
Let's drink until we're drunk.
Raise a toast to the beauty of the east
and to the Yellow River of the west.
Bring me wine!
Zhou Zheng.
Zhou Zheng.
Don't move.
The new semester is starting.
I want to give him a new start.
I can even make a mute talk.
Thanks doctor.
There's a regular prescription
and a more expensive one.
We want the expensive one.
Don't move.
I've seen a lot of kids like him.
Especially during adolescence.
If it's not treated...
it can affect his character.
You have to watch him closely.
Cheers.
Let me taste your medicine.
You can taste mine.
You're not sick.
Zhou Zheng's here.
How's your game?
You got off early today?
I have a dinner plan tonight.
So I've come back to change.
Sounds like a date.
Someone introduced to me
to a ticket seller.
Very good.
I've seen her picture.
She's not bad.
Zhou Zheng is here.
Mom, what have you been up to?
Hai'ou is ruined.
What do you mean?
She's seeing someone behind my back.
Isn't that a good thing?
Bullshit!
He's 10 years older and divorced.
He hangs out at the dance hall all day.
What does he do?
They work together.
Put a stop to it.
If I could I wouldn't be so angry.
Hai'ou talked back to me so I hit her.
She won't give him up.
She's fallen under that Li Guangyuan's spell.
Beating child... that shouldn't be.
That's easy for you to say.
You're no use to this family.
Where does he live?
I'll run him over with my bus.
Mind your own business.
Hai'ou is already ruined.
I'm going to lose you too?
So what can we do?
I'll go again tomorrow.
If they don't break up,
I'll fight him to the death.
I'll go.
Look at your lame leg!
Why won't you listen and go to the hospital?
You're embarrassing the kids.
You'd better not go in.
Wait me here.
My parents will never agree.
The important thing is...
do you agree?
It's what I want. I'll decide for myself.
Dad?
You...
I want a word with him.
You go over there.
Dad.
Go.
Uncle.
Call me Wang Zhantuan.
Uncle, I'll make you some tea.
Hai'ou didn't come home last night.
Uncle...
I'll tell you the truth.
Hai'ou is pregnant, three months.
Will you be good to Hai'ou?
I will.
If you say so, you have to do so.
Love can also kill.
I know from experience.
Then I'll learn a lesson from you.
When are you planning to get married?
Our parents have to agree first.
Let's make time to have a meal together.
I'll set it up.
Uncle...
What's wrong with your leg?
I've got a lump on my thigh.
Intersecting the groin.
It's affecting your walk?
I suspect it's ideological problem.
- "Cures For Strange Diseases"
- Can that cause a lame leg?
Is this your book?
Lend it to me.
Sure.
Zhou Zheng,
let's go home.
Your father is not an ordinary person.
I'm going to be a grandfather.
I'm going to be a grandfather.
I'm going to bbbbe...
an uncle.
When did Hai'ou get married?
Next month.
Next?
And she's already pregnant?
It's none of your business.
Lao He, you've made progress.
You're giving me a compliment?
That's rare.
He's already got the winning card.
He'll win for sure.
What winning card?
Hai'ou is pregnant.
Dongshun,
tomorrow you and Yingzi go to that meal for me.
I'm too embarrassed to go.
You're her uncle, what you say goes.
Okay.
Understood.
How old are you?
Are you in junior high or high school?
He's talking to you.
Did you lose your tongue?
He doesn't want to talk.
He is in first year of high school.
Third year of junior high.
I thought that was last year?
He had to repeat a grade.
Repeat a grade?
What's going on?
Guangyuan, let's have a drink.
Big sister told me to keep an eye on you.
It's okay. Today's a good day.
Uncle...
Dad! Here's to you.
Dad, I'll drink it up.
Got the marriage certificate yet?
It's too early to call him dad.
Brother...
Here's to you.
You're 4 years older than me.
But I've got to respect the family hierarchy.
I'll drink it up,
you take it easy.
I'm...
going for a piss.
Me too.
Dad, look here.
What's that?
Go get some branches.
For what?
Go get some branches.
Why are you roasting it?
I read it in a book,
eating it can fix my leg.
I can't go to the wedding like this.
I don't want to embarrass her.
Can that...
cure me too?
You...
aren't sick.
Zhou Zheng!
Dad!
Dad!
Dad!
Zhou Zheng!
Dad!
Zhou Zheng.
Zhou Zheng,
what are you waiting for?
Hurry up.
No need to ask him, I won't let him go.
Why?
Friends and family will be there.
What if they ask
about repeating a grade.
Aren't you ashamed?
Keep your voice down.
If he really cared,
he wouldn't end up to repeat a grade.
I don't know who he takes after.
No need to be so sarcastic.
Okay, okay.
Come on.
Hurry up.
Be careful.
Be careful.
Watch the steps.
Slow down.
The bride is here.
Come on.
Get in this one.
Right.
Be careful.
Sister.
Our car is over there.
Haiyang.
Yes?
Haiyang.
Mom?
Give this to your dad.
Go.
Dad.
Dad.
Dad.
Dad.
Wedding cigarettes, from mom.
Sister...
I understand. He is afraid he'd
make Hai'ou embarrassed.
He is really considerate.
Zhou Zheng.
Zhou Zheng.
They locked me from the outside.
I can't get out.
Climb down the tree.
Wedding cigarettes.
Your aunt gave special permission.
Let me help you.
Get some luck from the wedding.
Look.
Ten red ones.
Your cousin's wedding cars.
Hai'ou...
Happy wedding day!
May you have a happy life!
Hai'ou...
Happy...
The next spring,
the boil on Wang Zhantuan's leg healed.
I don't think it had
anything to do with the hedgehog.
Wang Haiou's daughter was also born,
Wang Zhantuan named his granddaughter Li Mumu,
"Mu" means "bath".
It's no longer about the sea
but still related to water.
Nice to meet you, Li Mumu.
My name is Wang Zhantuan.
Stutterer!
Liu Bowen!
The idiot who repeated a grade.
Liu Bowen!
You've gone too far!
Zhantuan...
How about play a game with me.
Let me finish this game with Lao He.
Lao He's been dead for 7 days.
Here he is.
Get on your bike.
Stop!
Stop!
Help!
Wang Zhantuan!
Stop!
Dare you run...
How about now?
What are you doing?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Move.
Have you eaten?
Go home and have dinner.
Are you protecting him? Fine.
Bowen, let's go.
Go.
He's coming.
He's coming.
You go that way.
Wang Zhantuan.
My family thought Wang Zhantuan
had tricked me into running away
and called the police.
Thank you officer.
Say thank you.
Thank you.
Please keep an eye on him.
Don't let him get lost.
We won't trouble you again.
Call the police if you have any trouble.
Don't call us if there's no problem.
Go home now.
Thank you.
Wang Zhantuan.
What were you running for?
I was chasing Lao He.
Lao He is dead.
I couldn't catch him.
He ran too fast.
Yingzi, don't scold the child when you get home.
Talk to the doctor...
Zhou Zheng, come back.
I want to go out singing.
You can do whatever you want at home.
But you can't go out.
I want to go out singing.
Sing at home.
Come on, which song do you want to sing?
Pick it yourself.
Grounded again?
How did you...
get out?
Almost didn't get out.
Wang Zhantuan...
actually you...
have never been to the Pacific.
Zhou Zheng.
Zhou Zheng.
Your father-in-law is out of control.
He runs off all the time.
I'm so tired.
Mom...
we can bring the baby to our place tonight.
She can stay for a couple of days.
So you can get some rest.
Guangyuan,
you're well-read and knowledgeable.
Tell me...
Who is this Bai San Ye?
Mom...
The first time I came here
I saw that spirit tablet
but I didn't say anything.
Tell me now.
Well...
Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui.
The five spirits.
The Bai family spirit...
is the hedgehog.
Mom...
Let's move that spirit tablet away.
It's superstition.
Every time you ring, it's more headaches.
Ms. Zhao, he's even crazier,
I'm afraid something bad will happen.
Don't talk about the symptom, just tell me...
what has he done?
He...
Is it because he ate a hedgehog?
Please beg Bai San Ye...
What?
Bai San Ye is my father!
He ate my father!
- "Shenyang Psychiatric Hospital"
- Your whole family is going to hell!
- "Math exam" - Why did you repeat
a year again and still fail the exam?
I'm too ashamed to sign.
You still have an appetite to eat?
Don't drink soda all the time,
take your medicine.
Hello...
3 bowls of noodles, 2 flat, 1 thin
and 2 boiled chicken racks.
3 bottles of soda.
18 yuan.
Zhou Zheng?
Are you two classmates?
We used to sit at the same desk.
She's talking to you.
And you are?
He Miaozi.
Oh right...
Miaozi.
She's Ms. Yang's daughter.
Yes, hello auntie and uncle.
Yingzi, you're still charging her?
Oh, I forgot.
No... --It's okay.
Thank you, auntie.
Why did you come here after school?
It's such a long way.
I'm going over to Benxi with my friends.
We're catching a train at the North Station.
You're in high school already.
You're a big girl now.
Miaozi is getting prettier.
Look at her... --You're too kind.
Now look at yourself.
Let me get it, auntie
Sit down, sit down.
Help out and do some work!
It's hot!
Thanks.
Thanks.
"Yuying Junior High School"
You think you're not a repeat student
if you take it off?
Look at yourself.
You still can't focus on the right things.
What are you doing? Zhou Dongshun!
Don't cause a scene!
He's made me totally lose face.
Stop it...
What can I say?
Are you crazy?
Uncle Zhang bought...
a big steamed bun.
Uncle Li...
This winter,
Wang Zhantuan began to stay indoors.
Let's play chess.
Elephant, five back three.
Rook, eight across even.
Eat the elephant.
Rook, eight back two.
Cannon, six forward seven.
Take it.
Take it.
Don't be in a hurry to take
the sacrificed pieces.
It's snowing.
I confess.
I am an evil woman.
I'm even more evil than Madame Bovary.
But I can't help it.
I wish I could fall asleep and never wake up.
I drugged my husband.
I'm a sinner.
Guangyuan.
Mom.
Why are you here?
Is there any Chinese medicine...
that can help with sleep
and have less side effects?
Father-in-law sleeps all day. You still need...
No...
It's for me.
I haven't been sleeping well lately.
I've heard your song, my boy.
I understand your heart...
and your feelings.
Is it okay if I ask...
your name?
Now that you're my soulmate.
I've got another friend.
Spring Festival
without Zhantuan's singing.
It's quite boring.
Oh right, is brother-in-law better?
He still sleeps all day.
That's good.
At least he doesn't run off.
What're you doing? --Are you looking for trouble?
Okay, okay, he won't do it again.
Sister, what's wrong?
My husband divorced me.
Divorced?
I will give you this moment with music.
My aunt was stuck.
My parents and Wang Zhantuan were all stuck.
So was I.
Who wrote this?
Mom, why are you looking through my bag again?
I'm glad I did.
It's nothing to do with me.
Nothing to do with you?
Then why hide it in your bag?
Well?
You don't want to tell me?
I'll ask every class.
We'll see which one of us is embarrassed.
Mom!
Just tell me who!
I knew that
the poem I copied from Wang Zhantuan
Come in
caused me trouble.
Still waters run deep.
Zhou Zheng...
such a great poet you are.
This is your masterpiece, is it?
Come on,
read it to me.
Or I can read it for you.
A love poem.
I come from the wilderness.
To the ocean I intend to go.
The distant sirens are calling.
But life has blocked my way.
She has given me stories.
She has given me stories?
What story did she give you?
What story did you give him?
What are you doing!
What are you doing!
What are you doing, Zhou Zheng!
I come from the wilderness...
To the ocean I intend to go.
The distant sirens are calling...
But life has blocked my way.
She has given me stories.
I'll write poems to her.
Open the door!
Open the door!
Open the door!
Wang Zhantuan!
Open the door!
Wang Zhantuan!
Open the door!
Wang Zhantuan!
Open the door!
I'll never go to school again!
Wang Zhantuan!
Wang Zhantuan!
Wang Zhantuan!
Uncle...
You...
You're not a sacrificed piece.
I'm not one either!
Zhou Zheng...
What's going on?
I hate you!
I hate...
myself!
What...
Zhou Zheng, are you back?
What's wrong?
Be careful.
What are you doing?
Come out!
What are you doing?
A love poem!
I put up with you repeating a grade.
Now you try to be worst.
You want to be a pervert now?
Where are you going?
Stand still!
Zhou Dongshun!
I'm going to kill you!
What are you doing! -- Move aside!
Don't beat him!
I'm going to kill him!
Stop running!
Stop!
How dare you run!
Zhou Zheng was here just now.
It's raining hard.
So I just wanted to check
if he got home safely?
Yingzi?
What happened?
Yingzi?
Take it easy.
Tell me what happened?
Sister...
I'm afraid Zhou Zheng...
may have been possessed...
Xiuling.
"I'm taking the baby home,
don't run off anywhere."
That day,
Wang Zhantuan woke up
and upset everyone's plans.
What's going on?
Wang Zhantuan.
Wang Zhantuan.
What're you doing? Go home.
Let's go home.
Give me back the flag.
Give me back the flag.
He's my husband.
I'll talk to him.
Zhou Zheng!
Long time no see.
You've grown.
Ms. Zhao,
my old friend.
Step back!
You have a feud with our Bai family now.
You're only alive
because Bai San Ye showed mercy.
But I just saved your father's life,
doesn't that makes us even?
Tell him to leave.
Now it's your turn, Zhou Zheng.
Brother-in-law.
Zhantuan...
You...
Brother-in-law, please go inside.
Don't be angry, Ms. Zhao.
Come over here.
Go.
It's for your own good.
Come, kneel down here.
Go.
Kneel.
Zhou Zheng, kneel.
Zhou Zheng...
Should he kneel?
Zhantuan!
Let me talk to him...
Zhantuan!
I just want to talk to him...
Zhou Zheng...
Come back!
Just go inside please...
Come here and kneel!
Kneel!
Kneel!
Kneel!
Kneel!
Kneel!
Kneel!
Do you confess your sins?
Yes. He confesses.
Let him speak for himself.
Confess!
Confess!
Say it!
You won't speak, right?
I'll tell you what sins you've committed.
You've disobeyed your parents.
He's disobeyed his parents.
You refuse to follow the righteous path.
He refuses to follow the righteous path.
If you don't say it, we can't fix this.
Speak.
Speak.
Say it!
You refuse to speak, is it?
I'll speak!
I'll speak for him.
I respect your mother's sincerity
and forgive your youthful ignorance.
Quiet down!
If it weren't for Bai San Ye
having to pass through that hole...
I wouldn't be enduring this bullshit!
Stop!
Brother-in-law!
I'm begging you!
Now,
repeat after me.
One, calling the fox spirit,
two, calling the weasel spirit.
Say it.
One, calling the fox spirit, two,
calling the weasel spirit.
Let him say it.
Three, calling the python spirit,
four, calling the snake. Say it.
Three, calling the python spirit,
four, calling the snake.
Let him say it!
Five, calling the celestial judge,
six, calling the Yama.
Bai San Ye save this boy. Say it!
Five, calling the celestial judge,
six, calling the Yama.
You have a problem?
Say it!
Your...
Bai San Ye...
can't save me.
Because I...
ate it.
What are you talking about?
Wang Zhantuan ate it...
and I ate it too!
I ate...
your father.
Open the door!
Open the door!
What's going on?
Who called the police?
I'm Wang Zhantuan.
If there's a problem, we'd call the police.
Hello.
I'm a fifth year junior high student,
Zhou Zheng.
Have some water.
The food's ready.
Okay.
Let's eat.
Mom, where's dad?
Yeah, where's uncle?
Who knows what he's up to in there?
The distant sirens are calling.
It's time for me to go.
"Wang Zhantuan"
"Psychiatric Hospital Application Form"
- "Guardian's Signature: Zhou Xiuling"
- Auntie, when did you sign this?
Where did you find it?
I thought I've thrown it away.
Why... do you send him away?
She didn't want to send me away.
Dumplings are good for starting a journey.
Zhou Zheng.
We can still play chess when you come visit me.
I won't go.
Everyone can go.
You can't go!
This time I'm making the decision myself.
Xiuling, you don't have to worry
I'll run away from home any more.
And you two can live here after you get married
and keep your mom company.
No need to rush.
Visiting hours haven't started yet.
Not long after Wang Zhantuan
went to the asylum,
my cousin had an accident.
I've heard your song, my boy.
I understand your heart and your feelings...
I've heard your song, my boy.
I understand your heart and your feeling...
Haiyang!
Haiyang!
Brother-in-law.
Dad.
Where's Haiyang?
I thought it would be too much for you...
But I knew I had to tell you.
Amitabha.
Zhantuan!
He's disfigured.
Don't, sir.
Doctor.
His soul may has departed,
but his face remains in our hearts.
It's time to let go, and I'm not a doctor.
The road to heaven is long and winding.
Don't look back on the way to heaven.
Next.
Next.
Next.
Yours.
I got into high school.
Wang Zhantuan?
You... Are you okay?
What's the prize?
It was mine to start with.
It belongs to whoever wins it.
Next.
Take this...
Ticket please.
Zhou Zheng.
Drop by home sometimes to see your grandma.
No need.
I'm not going to die.
You don't have to come home.
Go as far as you can.
This year, I got into college.
I left home and Shenyang for good.
And I went further and further away.
Grandma... I'm back.
Have a look at this.
Looks good, doesn't it?
What country is your mother from?
Argentina.
My dad is from Shenyang.
Who'd have thought you're half from Shenyang?
I can't believe that I'm
going to be a grandmother.
Mom!
Zhou Zheng.
You were at the maritime academy for 4 years.
Then on a cruise for almost 3 years.
You've been to a lot of places, right?
Not just Asia.
Europe, Africa, America...
But you never came home.
Still a third officer?
I would have thought you'd be a captain by now.
What does a third officer actually do?
He's finally come home.
Let's be happy.
If you're happy you go ahead and eat.
What are you doing?
You should ask him.
7 years!
He hasn't gone back home once.
You've fallen under Wang Zhantuan's spell!
I...
Your dad asked me to give you this.
- "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"
- He picked it up off the ground that day
and kept it for you
"A love poem"
until now.
It was so close...
It really was so close back then
that you became another Wang Zhantuan.
I am Wang Zhantuan.
Mom,
you were wrong.
Only Wang Zhantuan treated me
as a normal person.
Can you forgive us?
No, I can't.
I can't forgive you.
Dad...
Dad, will you name the baby?
How about Yangyang?
Yang...
which means sun?
No.
Yang, as in Shenyang.
Novice Zhou... there's someone here to see you.
Auntie...
I know why you did it.
You were afraid Wang Zhantuan would run away.
The distant sirens are calling.
It's time for me to go.
Zhou Zheng...
Zhou Zheng...
Zhou Zheng.
Come.
Zhou Zheng...
Zhou Zheng...
The year of my college entrance exams,
Wang Zhantuan ran away from the lunatic asylum.
He was not a sacrificed piece indeed.
My auntie said he went to look
for the Pacific Ocean in the novel.
Many years later,
when I was in a strange sea area
at the tip of Fort Spozzi
and on the bank of the Hun River in Shenyang.
Two similar winds blew through.
And I'm sure that we would never
be stuck by anything.