Tiny Times (Chinese: 小时代), also known as Tiny Times 1.0[2] is the first installment of the film series written and directed by Guo Jingming and based on the best-selling novel of the same name also by Guo.[1]

Tiny Times
Directed byGuo Jingming
Written byGuo Jingming
Screenplay byGuo Jingming
Based onTiny Times 1.0
by Guo Jingming
Produced byLi Li
An Xiaofen
Adam Tsuei
Zhou Qiang
Angie Chai
StarringYang Mi
Kai Ko
Amber Kuo
Rhydian Vaughan
Bea Hayden
Evonne Hsieh
Cheney Chen
Li Yueming
Jiang Chao
CinematographyRandy Che[2]
Edited byGu Xiaoyun
Music byHou Zhijian
Production
companies
He Li Chen Guang Media
EE-Media
Star Ritz Prods.
H&R Century Pictures
Beijing Forbidden City Film
Le Vision Pictures (Tianjin)
Le Vision Pictures
Shenzhen Desen Intl. Media
Amazing Film Studio
Comic Ritz Film & TV Culture
Mission Media Investment
Distributed byChina Film Group Cooperation (China)
Dasheng International Media (China)
Le Vision Pictures Co. (China)
Release date
  • June 27, 2013 (2013-06-27)
Running time
115 minutes[3]
CountryChina[1]
LanguageMandarin
Budget¥45 million (estimated)[2]
Box office¥484 million
(US$79.7 million)[4]

Plot

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The four young women are classmates in high school and roommates in college. On campus, they start their internships and cope with a series of romantic affairs. After graduation, they continue their correspondence, suffused with misunderstanding and jealousy. However, they have all changed significantly.

After graduation, Lin Xiao settles into her job as an editorial assistant at a fashion magazine and acclimating herself to the glamorous, high-octane world of haute couture. She meets her demanding and cold boss, Gong Ming, whose melancholic persona is described by Lin Xiao as “a distant, lonely planet in the universe”. Her work puts her relationship with her high school sweet heart, Jian Xi in peril.

Meanwhile, Gu Li faces struggle in her relationship with Gu Yuan at the intervention of his mother, who seeks to marry him off to an even wealthier family. Nan Xiang paints to support her fashion design studies, while at the same time struggle with her on-and-off relationship with abusive boyfriend Xi Cheng. Wan Ru worries that her aspirations in life are never really made certain, and the fact that she might not get a boyfriend.

Cast

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Release and reception

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Box office

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The film grossed US$79.7 million at the Chinese box office.[4]

Accolades

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List of awards and nominations
Award Category Nominee Result
China Movie Channel Media Awards[5] Best Feature Won (tied)
Best New Director Guo Jingming Won
9th Chinese American Film Festival Golden Angel Award: Best Feature Won

Original soundtrack

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Song Category Song Name Singer Notes
Theme song 我好想你 Sodagreen
Ending theme song 回聲樂團 Echo
Soundtrack 時間煮雨 Yisa Yu
殘忍的纏綿 Liu Xin
萬物無邪 Cheney Chen
不再見
歲月縫花
Fu Mengni
熱雪 Vision Wei
Are you with me Gao Kaiwei
你讓星星發亮
不管發生什麼別放開我的手
停停停
Go Julia Wu
Love Come Undone
Auld Lang Syne
Whatever
Roller Coaster Terence
Everything
Everybody Feel Like Dancing
微光 Sodagreen

References

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  1. ^ a b "Film Review: 'Tiny Times'". Variety. 2013-07-17.
  2. ^ a b c "Tiny Times 1.0 (2013)". imdb.com. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
  3. ^ "Tiny Times: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
  4. ^ a b Ma, Kevin (20 December 2013). "Personal Tailor sets China 2-D opening record". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  5. ^ "The 16th Shanghai International Film Festival 2013". mtime.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 2013-07-30.
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