Without too many questions being asked by anyone, Ling passes herself off as a distant country cousin Ying has never met, and quickly becomes her new best friend.

At this time, Ying is an unmarried factory employee with a heart of gold and a work ethic that embodies what dedicated contribution to collective effort is all about. While tearfully attending her mother’s deathbed, Ling is just as miraculously lifted into the clouds and hurtles back to Earth in 1981, before she was born.īreaking Ling’s fall from the sky is none other than Ying (now played by a radiant Zhang Xiaofei). No sooner has Ling expressed her deep fear of not becoming successful enough to make her mother proud than Ying is fatally injured in a road accident that miraculously leaves Ling unscathed. Surrounded by relatives obsessed with personal wealth, career opportunities and luxury goods, Ling’s painfully aware that such things were out of reach for her mother, Ying (Liu Jia), when she was young and China’s economic reforms had only just begun. Slightly awkward and immediately likable, Ling narrates her story as it begins in 2001.

Now 38, Jia plays the autobiographical role of daughter Ling with such sincerity and enthusiasm it hardly matters that she’s twice the character’s age. Just goes to show how the right product at the right time with the right audience can capture a market, even when it's nowhere near the best product out there.Expanded from a popular TV comedy sketch Jia performed in 2016, “Hi, Mom” is based on memories of her mother, who passed away when Jia was 19. The film’s takings overtook Wonder Woman in March this year to make it the highest-grossing film by a solo female director of all time! As a result, Director Jia Ling is now the highest-grossing female director in Chinese box office history.

It grossed $195m USD on it's opening weekend and went on to become the second highest grossing Chinese film, currently generating 5.4 Billion Yen and rising. Part Back to the Future and part with a soundtrack comprising some nice original piano tunes and some not-so-nice and clearly ripped-off from western pop songs of the 80s and 90s, Ni hao, Li Huan Ying is a moving family drama with tear-stained puffy cheeks.Ī commercial juggernaut launched at a time when seeing family members was difficult during the pandemic, the huge Chinese audience opted to watch this instead. Following a serious accident with her Mum in a car accident, Jia Xiaoling is transported back to 1981 and becomes the friend of a younger version of her Mum.

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