NOT ONE LESS
aka YI GE DOU BU NENG SHAO

Year: 1999
USA: Sony Pictures Classics
UK: Columbia
Cast: Minzhi Wei, Huike Zhang, Zhenda Tian, Enman Gao, Zhimei Sun, Yuying Feng, Fanfan Li
Director: Yimou Zhang
Country: China
Language: Mandarin (English subtitles)
USA & UK: 106 mins
UK Certificate: U
USA Release Date: 11 February 2000 (Limited Release - New York)
UK Release Date: 23 June 2000

Synopsis

A fill-in teacher in rural China who is a poorly educated 13 year-old, sets off for the city attempting to retrieve a truant and comes up against all kinds of bureaucratic obstacles. NOT ONE LESS is set in China and shows the child labour there.