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Winner of Best Film and Best Director at the 1994 Tokyo Film Festival, The Day The Sun Turned Cold is a rich and complex mystery story based on an actual Chinese criminal case.
Guan Jin (Tuo Zhong Hua), a young welder living in the northern provinces of China, enters a police station one day to accuse his own mother (Siqin Gowa) of poisoning his father to death ten years before. At first skeptical, then intrigued, the local police captain (Li Hu) re-opens the investigation. A series of flashbacks slowly reveals the shattering truth behind a lifetime of love and lies.
Shot in a wintry palette of violet, green and blue, The Day The Sun Turned Cold is an atmospheric portrait of the harsh beauty of life in northern China as well as a brilliant exploration of Oedipal love and betrayal. Director Yim Ho raises Chinese cinema to new heights of sophistication and diversity with this intense and emotional film noir.
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