---
title: 'Platform (2000)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jia Zhangke'
released: '2000-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 154
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Hong Kong'
  - 'People''s Republic of China'
  - 'France'
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/platform-2000'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258885/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Platform (2000)

2000 · 154 min · Drama · Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, France, Japan

Part of: Hometown Trilogy

## Synopsis

Platform is a 2000 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is set in and around the small city of Fenyang, Shanxi province, China, from the end of the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s. It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes. The dialogue is a mixture of local speech, mainly Jin Chinese and Mandarin. The film has been called "an epic of grassroots". It is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jia Zhangke](https://cinepixo.com/people/jia-zhangke)
- **Screenplay:** [Jia Zhangke](https://cinepixo.com/people/jia-zhangke)
- **Director of Photography:** [Yu Lik-wai](https://cinepixo.com/people/yu-lik-wai)

## Cast

- [Zhao Tao](https://cinepixo.com/people/zhao-tao)
- [Wang Hongwei](https://cinepixo.com/people/wang-hongwei)
- [Lina Yang](https://cinepixo.com/people/lina-yang)

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