My Father's Son

A quiet, haunted reckoning with grief and a difficult father, moving between memory and invention with a ghostly, introspective pull.

Directed by

Qiu Sheng

Genres

Drama

Starring

Song Yang, Sun Ning, Sun Anke

Overview

Qiao, an 18-year-old boy, loses his voice while delivering a eulogy for his late father. He runs away from the funeral and hides from his family. Between past, present and future, the young man recalls his relationship with his brutal and secretive father, who left him a passion for boxing. Ten years later, now an engineer, Qiao develops an AI boxer to help people learn boxing. Training with the AI day by day, Qiao begins to see a ghost.​​

How it feels

Melancholic, dark, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Grief, family, identity, memory

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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