Wet Season
2019 · Movie · 103 min · ★ 6.4 · 78% critics
A quietly overwhelmed schoolteacher struggles with infertility, caregiving duties, and a distant marriage while running extra language lessons at school. As one student grows attached during tutoring, the film follows a delicate emotional bond against a rainy, lonely backdrop.
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Details
- Original title
- 热带雨
- Years
- 2019
- Release date
- 2019-11-22
- Language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (39 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy patient, intimate dramas about loneliness, emotional longing, and human connection, in the vein of Return to Dust; Not for you if you want fast pacing or a more uplifting romance.
Pros: natural performances; emotionally honest tone; rich Singapore setting | Cons: very slow pace; familiar story beats; uneven scene flow
Themes
- singapore
- rain
- teacher student relationship
- schoolteacher
- neglected wife
- sick father
- durian
- wushu
Awards & recognition
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2021 · nominated
Cast & crew
Yeo Yann Yann
as Ling
Koh Jia Ler
as Kok Wei Lun
Christopher Lee
as Andrew Lim
Yang Shi Bin
as Ling's Father-in-law
- BK
Brayden Koh
as Mrs Chew's Son
Directed by Anthony Chen