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Life Show
Director:
Huo Jianqi
Producers: Jin Zhongqiang
Screenplay: Si Wu, based on a story by Chi Li
Cinematography: Sun Ming
Sound (Dolby): Chao Jun
Art Designer: Cui Ren
Cast: Tao Hong (as Lai Shuang Yang), Tao Zeru

LIFE SHOW tells the story of Lai Shuang Yang (Tao Hong), a shrewd, capable business woman with an enigmatic smile and cool exterior. Shuang Yang runs her small Ji Qing Street restaurant, while also keeping her nephew safe, her bother from drug addiction and, most importantly, trying to regain possession of the family home, which was lost during the Cultural Revolution. In fact, Shuang Yang will stop at nothing to retake the family estate - even marrying off her restaurant helper, A Mei, to the Housing Bureau officer's son. But for whom does she struggle and for what happiness? Shuang Yang has found she is unable to share her life with a mate, her sibling, her father, and children of her own. After Shuang Yang tackles each of the difficulties confronting her, what of her will be left for happiness? Winner of the Grand Prize at the 2002 Shanghai International Film Festival, including Best Actress for Tao Hong and Best Cinematography by Sun Ming, LIFE SHOW encapsulates the hardships of the modern Chinese woman.