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Cast & Crew

Zhang Yimou
Director
Guo Tao
As Director of the Propaganda Work Team
Yan Ni
As Director Li
Zhang Jiayi
As Doctor Dai
Gong Li
As Feng Wanyu
Ding Jiali
As Mr. Fang's wife
Zu Feng
As Instructor Dong
Chen Daoming
As Lu Yanshi

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Coming Home tells the story of Lu Yanshi, a dissident professor who returns home after years in a Cultural Revolution labor camp, only to find his family broken and his wife suffering from amnesia. Desperate to reawaken his wife's memory, Lu disguises himself as a stranger and tries to get close to her, but she only recognizes him as a letter reader or a piano tuner. As Lu continues to write to his wife and try to convince her to forgive their daughter, he must also confront the harsh realities of their lives and the choices they've made. Set against the backdrop of political turmoil and personal struggle, Coming Home is a powerful and emotional journey of love, loss, and redemption.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Coming Home include Love & Other Drugs, Love, Rosie, The Lucky One, The Theory of Everything, Me Before You, About Time.

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Coming Home was released in theaters on October 10, 2014.