Aaron Kwok & Zhang Ziyi in Love for Life
Love for Life (2011) Chinese Movie Information
Also called “Life is a Miracle”
Title in Chinese – 最爱
Title in Pinyin – zui ai
Genre – Drama, romance
Subject/theme – Chinese villagers infected with the AIDS virus from tainted blood tranfusions
Language – Mandarin / Putonghua
Region – Mainland China
Release dates
-Mainland China 10th May 2011
Movie runtime – 105 minutes
Director – Gu Changwei
Cast & Role Played
Aaron Kwok – Zhao Deyi, school teacher
Zhang Ziyi – QinQin, AIDS patient
Pu Cunxin – Qi Quan, blood merchant
Wang Baoqiang – Blabber, whistle blower
Story
Aaron Kwok plays the school teacher Zhao who is sent to a school in the country side. At the time the movie is set, the illegal trade in blood is common and Zhao contracts AIDS from tainted blood. An AIDS compound is set up in the school grounds and one of the AIDS patients sent to the compound is Qinqin. Even though Qinqin and Zhao are both married (unhappily), they battle both their spouses and the Chinese stigma of AIDS to be together.
