Xin Baiqing
Winner Profile
Best Supporting Actor
As Lichun, Yanagawa
Jury Citation
In Yanagawa, Xin Baiqing, with a precise sense of proportion, captures Lichun's effort to keep up the bluster of his carefree, reckless youth. He vividly depicts the character's resignation and worldliness in coping with real life and conveys both his unruliness and his sensitivity. His naturalistic performance adds lightness and rhythm to the film. Winner of Best Supporting Actor.
Yanagawa: Synopsis
As a teenager, Lidong (Zhang Luyi) loved a young woman named Chuan (Ni Ni), and her sudden disappearance one day left him with a knot he could not untie for more than a decade. To ease his longing, Lidong and his elder brother Lichun (Xin Baiqing) travel to Yanagawa, the town that shares her name, hoping to see her once more. When they meet again, the truth about many past events comes to light, and Lidong learns the real reason Chuan left. His long-hidden love for her grows ever stronger in this heartfelt confession made far from home...