Return to Dust
2022 · Movie · NR · 133 min · ★ 7.3 · 90% critics
Two people pushed aside by their families are placed into an arranged marriage and must rely on each other to get by. As they work the land and build a simple home through hardship, a quiet connection grows and offers them a chance at dignity and stability.
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Details
- Original title
- 隐入尘烟
- Years
- 2022
- Release date
- 2022-07-08
- Language
- Chinese
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Critic score
- 90/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 (201 votes)
About
If you enjoy intimate, patient dramas about resilience and love growing from difficult circumstances, this may click, especially if you liked Coming Home or Wet Season; Not for you if you want fast pacing or light escapism.
Pros: tender slow-burn romance; grounded rural struggle; hopeful human connection | Cons: very slow pacing; heavy hardship themes; minimal plot turns
Themes
- country life
Awards & recognition
- Espiga de Oro · 2022
Cast & crew
Wu Renlin
as Ma Youtie
Hai Qing
as Cao Guiying
Yang Guangrui
as Zhang Yongfu's Son
- DZ
Dengfeng Zhao
as Ma Youtong
- CW
Cailan Wang
as Sister-in-Law
- JZ
Jiangui Zeng
as Ma Youtong's Eldest Son
- WY
Wu Yunzhi
as Ma Youtong's Second Son
- ZM
Zhanhong Ma
as Brother Guiying
- CW
Cuilan Wang
as Guiying's Sister-in-Law
- CX
Caixia Xu
as Ma Hongmei
Directed by Li Ruijun