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In the Heat of the Sun

In the Heat of the Sun
Traditional Chinese陽光燦爛的日子
Simplified Chinese阳光灿烂的日子
Literal meaningDays of the Bright and Lush Sunshine
Hanyu PinyinYángguāng Cànlàn De Rìzi
Directed byJiang Wen
Written byJiang Wen
Based onWild Beast
by Wang Shuo
Produced byGuo Youliang
Hsu An-chin
Po Ki
StarringXia Yu
Ning Jing
Geng Le
Tao Hong
CinematographyGu Changwei
Edited byZhou Ying
Music byGuo Wenjing
Release date
  • 1994 (1994)
Running time
134 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin

In the Heat of the Sun is a 1994 Chinese film directed and written by Jiang Wen.[1] The film is based loosely on author Wang Shuo's novel Wild Beast.

In the Heat of the Sun was Jiang Wen's first foray into directing after years as a leading actor. In the film, Jiang Wen utilized eroticism to restructure the discourse of Maoist China.[1] The romantic and nostalgic representation of history is evident through the sensual narrative as well as the sexual experience of the film’s characters at the height of the Cultural Revolution.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Cai, Shenshen (2017), Cai, Shenshen (ed.), "Jiang Wen and His Signature Films: Let the Bullets Fly and Gone with the Bullets", Contemporary Chinese Films and Celebrity Directors, Singapore: Springer, pp. 113–135, doi:10.1007/978-981-10-2966-0_6, ISBN 978-981-10-2966-0, archived from the original on 12 March 2024, retrieved 13 June 2021

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