Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Joan Chen

Status Released

Release Date 1998-02-19

Storyline

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.