Wen Zhang as Dafu in Ocean Heaven
Ocean Heaven (2010) Chinese Movie Information
Title in Chinese – 海洋天堂
Title in Pinyin – Hai Yang Tian Tang
Genre – Drama
Subject/theme – A single father with a terminal illness struggles to prepare his autistic son for life without him
Language – Mandarin
Region – China
Release date – 24th June 2010
Movie runtime – 96 minutes
Director – Xue Xiaolu
Cast & Role Played
Jet Li – Sam, a single father to an autistic son who has a terminal illness
Wen Zhang – Dafu, Sam’s autistic son
Kwai Lun-mei – Ling, a clown from a travelling circus
Yan Minqiu – Principal Liu, principle of a boarding school for mentally challenged children
Zhu Yuanyuan – Madam Chai
Gao Yuanyuan – Sam’s deceased wife and Dafu’s mother
Story
Sam is an aquarium worker who has been struggling to bring up his autistic son Dafu since his wife died 14 years ago. Sam has a terminal disease so he frantically trying to teach Dafu the skills he’ll need to survive after Sam has died.
The plot develops when Dafu becomes friends with a clown from a circus that performed briefly at the aquarium and help gradually appears in various forms as Sam perseveres in teaching Dafu skills that he is slow to grasp.
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