Why can't you show Suzhou River?

Suzhou Creek was banned from being shown in Chinese mainland by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) because it participated in foreign film festivals without being submitted for trial.

Suzhou Creek is a love art film shot in 1998 and released in 2000, directed by Lou Ye and starring Zhou Xun and Jia Hongsheng.

The film mainly tells the love entanglement between Motor and the innocent girl Peony and the beautiful girl who performed on the same stage with the mermaid who looks like Peony. The film was released in Hongkong, China on September 7th, 2000. In the same year, he won the Golden Tiger Award at the 29th Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Best Film Award at the 5th Paris International Film Festival/kloc-0, and was selected as one of the top ten films of the year by Time magazine.

Extended data:

abstract

An ordinary photographer in Shanghai thinks that others take pictures for a living. In his eyes, Suzhou River is a dirty river running through Shanghai, and ordinary people live different lives on both sides of the river. One day, the owner of a bar found him and asked him to shoot something special. The boss pointed around, and he realized that it was to drum up business and let him take a picture of a mermaid swimming in the store.

The photographer gradually got to know Meimei, the girl who plays the mermaid, and learned the story of Motor and Peony from her mouth. Motor is a gangster postman. He rides a motorcycle bought from a thief and delivers goods from one end of the city to the other.

Once, someone asked him to give a little girl a peony. After several times, Motor became familiar with Peony and fell in love with her. But soon Mada was involved in a kidnapping plot, and the kidnappers tried to blackmail Peony's father into kidnapping Peony in exchange for money.