- 小时代 "Tiny Times"
"Tiny Times " - 小时代 ( in pinyin: Xiǎo shí dài)
Tiny Times (Chinese: 小时代), also known as Tiny Times is a 2013 Chinese romance drama
film written, co-produced and directed by Guo Jingming and based on the best-selling novel
of the same name also by Guo. The story follows the film's narrator and protagonist Lin
Xiao, played by Yang Mi, along with her best friends Gu Li, Nan Xiang, Tang Wanru, as
they navigates between relationship, work and friendship in Shanghai.
The film received mostly negative reviews from Chinese film critics, although it was a
commercial success. A sequel titled Tiny Times 2, which was filmed together with the
first film and based on the second-half of the novel, was released on August 8, 2013.
Directed by Zhao Wei.
Directed by Guo Jingming
Produced by Li Li
An Xiaofen
Adam Tsuei
Zhou Qiang
Angie Chai
Written by Guo Jingming
Screenplay by Guo Jingming
Based on Tiny Times 1.0 by Guo Jingming
Starring: Yang Mi
Amber Kuo
Haden Kuo
Xie Yilin
Music by Hou Zhijian
Editing by Gu Xiaoyun
Studio Enlight Media (China)
H&R Century Pictures Co., Ltd (China)
Distributed by China Film Group Cooperation (China)
Dasheng International Media (China)
Le Vision Pictures Co. (China)
Release date(s) June 27, 2013
Running time 115 minutes
Country China
Language Mandarin
Plot:
The film was based on the first half of Tiny Times 1.0, the first novel in Guo's Tiny
Times series. It depicts the friendship among four young girls, Lin Xiao, Gu Li, Nan
Xiang, Tang Wanru from Lin Xiao’s perspective in Shanghai, illustrating the titanic
transformation of their own philosophies. The four young girls had been classmates
in high school and roommates in college. On campus, they, faced with heavy pressure,
initiated their internships and coped with intractable affairs happening continually. After
graduation, even if they became sophisticated and related to complex relationship in society,
they still continued their correspondence with misunderstanding and jealousy. However,
they have all changed, never as before.
