Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Name: Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Genre: Drama
Released: 1998-02-19
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Li Xiaolu, Lopsang, Zheng Qian, Lü Yue, Gao Jie

1998·Drama·1h 39m

7.5

★

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

Directed by Joan Chen

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woman director

communism crimes

Trailer

IMDB

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Cast

Li Xiaolu

Wen Xiu

Lopsang

Lao Jin

Zheng Qian

Li Chuanbei

Lü Yue

Father

Lü Zhong

Belt Man

Wang Luoyong

Narrator (voice)

Crew

Joan Chen

Director

Yan Geling

Screenplay

Joan Chen

Screenplay

Lü Yue

Director of Photography

Joan Chen

Producer

Joan Chen

Executive Producer

Yan Geling

Novel

Popular Reviews

16 reviews

Lizzy Lace

9.0★ · 06/05/26

"please let me escape, when will i be going home?" - Suha, Knife Play (2002) by Xiu Xiu
to watch this movie one must learn to stomach the pain that consumes the world around one, one must learn to read between the gap of inhale and exhale and the shifting of eyes, one must not blink till the act is done. one of the finest films i have ever seen.

Riham

8.0★ · 04/28/26

Thank you to David Lynch for making Twin Peaks which lead to Xiu Xiu Wikipedia which introduced us to this masterpiece

corrin

7.4★ · 04/09/25

difficult and evil watch I had to try so hard not to turnvit off nice one jamie stewart my name is suha im twenty five years old when will I be going home?😢 this movie awful and so sad and I even went to the doctor today and they didnt give me nothing so now im gonna kill myself call me wen xiu ... but hey on the bright side death grips r back together!

Andrea Faith

8.6★ · 01/30/25

This is such a hard and devastating watch

rpoetra

9.0★ · 11/28/21

The ending of this film is one of the saddest, heart-wrenching for me.

This world to cruel for her.