OLD BEAST

By Ziyang ZHOU

ENCORE INFLIGHT LIMITED - as DISTR Airline, World

First film - Completed 2017

A rowdy father steals the money his family gathers for his wife’s surgery and sets himself on a path of self-destruction with no turning back.

Festivals
& Awards

FIRST International Film Festival 2017
Best Actor Award
Tokyo International Film Festival 2017
Asian Future section
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2017
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • CHINA
    • Languages
    • MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 110 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ziyang ZHOU
    • Writer(s)
    • Ziyang ZHOU
    • Producer(s)
    • Xiaoshuai WANG, Xuan LIU
    • Synopsis
    • Lao Yang is by no means a good husband and father. A man in his 60s who had his fair share of success but went bankrupt years ago, he has since gone wayward and is tabbed as the Old Beast. By hooking on gambling, keeping a mistress, having a fallout with his family, neglecting his bedridden wife, etc, he truly lives up to his nickname and shows no sign of remorse. When he steals the money his family gathers for his wife’s surgery, he sets himself on a path of self-destruction with no turning back.