Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles ::: A Movie Review

Documentary of Japanese film maker who visits China to finish a documentary started by his soon-to-be-deceased son. Shows how a stubborn Japanese elder fisherman acts like a culturally-insensitive American when faced with the reality of another country's culture.

In this case, how a Chinese prison was double crossed by a foreigner who made a film the previous year, and portrayed the local bureacracy in a negative vein. Thereafter a second foreigner insists the only person who can portray a certain traditional tale is in an individual in prison. Finally the local prison and authorities are shown in a favorable light, and the foreign visitor looses his hard edge as well.

Realistic portrayal of Yunnan Province, the place in China with the largest ethnic diversity. And the former home of the real-life Bigfoot giganticus.

Chinese name is "Qian li zou dan qi" (2005)
..... http://imdb.com/title/tt0437447/