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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox Chinese Film<br />
| name = Postmen in the Mountains<br />
| image = Postmaninthemountains.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| chinese = Nashan naren nagou<br>那山、那人、那狗<br />
| director = [[Jianqi Huo]]<br />
| producer = <br />
| writer = [[Wu Si]]<br />
| starring = [[Yueming Pan]]<BR />[[Rujun Ten]]<BR />[[Quan Yuan]]<br />
| cinematography = <br />
| released = 1999<br />
| runtime = 93 min<br />
| language = Mandarin<br />
| country = China<br />
|}}<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Father (Teng Rujun) has been a postman all his life. His job is to deliver mail to the remote<br />
mountain areas of Hunan, China by foot. He is in his late 40s. But now, poor health is forcing him<br />
to retire. He cannot trust anyone else but his son (Liu Ye) to take over the job. The morning<br />
comes that Son is ready for his first trip as a postman. It's going to be a 3-day trip., 122<br />
kilometers, as it always is. Father cannot rest easy, ans insists that heill come along, knowing the<br />
importance of his job, and not quite able to give it up..<br />
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This is Son's first trip and Father's last. They have never taken a trip together.<br />
The mountain paths are so familiar under Father's feet. However, walking them with his son<br />
makes him feel strange. He has so much to say to him, but what comes out of his mouth is only<br />
about the job. And Son doesn't even know how to address his own father properly. The word<br />
"father" sounds so awkward to pronounce to him.<br />
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The trip is not as easy as Son thought it would be. Walking in the endless, nearly deserted zigzag<br />
paths through the mountains, Son realizes how much Father has contributed to his work and the<br />
people who depend on him to get messages to and from the outside world, and how much Mother<br />
has given up to support the family. Father, in his eyes, is no longer as tall abd distant as he<br />
remembers from his childhood. He's thin and common.<br />
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When they finally get to a creek for a short cut, Son insists that Father should never touch cold<br />
water again. He wades across the creek with his father on his shoulders. The distance between<br />
Father and Son evaoprates. For Father, it reminds him of how he used to carry Son at a time that<br />
doesn't seem so long ago. At that moment, he knows he's getting old...<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Hao Chen]]<br />
* [[Ye Liu]] - Son<br />
* [[Rujun Ten]] - Father<br />
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