Return to Dust
2022 · Movie · NR · 133 min
★ 7.2(201)unSUB Rating
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
- TMDB rating (input)
- 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