Chinese Title: Xiao Shuo

English Title: The Obscure

Director: Lü Yue

Screenplay: Lü Yue, Liu Yiwei

Cast: Wang Zhiwen, Wang Tong

Genre: Drama

Region: China

Language: Chinese Mandarin

Running Time: 84min

Year of Production: 2006

Synopsis:

Setting in a 1999 gathering of some of China's best-known scribes to gab about Poetry, Chen Xiao (Wang Tong), recognizes an old flame, Zhao Zixuan (Wang Zhiwen), who's in the same hotel on business. Between more academic gabbing, the film crosscuts to their tentative get-together, reminiscences and regrets.