Well Go USA just rolled out its official trailer for Derek Tsang’s emotional new coming-of-age drama, Better Days. Zhou Dongyu and TF Boys member Jackson Yee star in the compelling new film which only just announced its new U.S. release date for November 8 after four months of stagnation by China censors ahead of its local release in the mainland last Friday.
When it is time for the Chinese gaokao, a two-day national college entrance exam, the entire country comes to a standstill. For nearly ten million high school students, this exam not only determines where and if they get to study but the fates of their entire families as well. Like so many others, Nian has been single-mindedly preparing for the exam, cutting everything else out of her life. When she becomes the target of relentless bullying, fate brings her together with small-time criminal Bei and the two form a strong friendship. Before they can completely retreat into a world of their own, the two are dragged in the middle of a murder case of a teenage girl where they are the prime suspects. In this dramatic thriller, Derek Kwok-Cheung Tsang paints a bleak picture of an oppressive society, in the guise of a gripping fairy-tale love story, exposing the dark world of bullying and societal pressures of achievement facing today’s youth.
Check out the newly-dated trailer above and poster below.
