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Preparation for the Next Life

Love isn’t an escape, it’s a reason to keep going.

5.871 average rating
★★★★★
5.871
Mandarin / 116 MIN. / 2025

The Genres

The Synopsis

Aishe, a Uyghur woman trained by her military father, migrates to New York City where she finds herself laboring in Chinatown’s underground kitchens. She fatefully encounters Skinner, a young American soldier who has just returned from three tours in the Middle East. While falling in love, they discover the possibility of a better life together than the ones they believed they were destined to live alone.

The Cast

Sebiye BehtiyarFred HechingerLandyn LuElla Rouwen ChenB. Todd JohnstonMaxwell AlmonoJustin CottaAlicher AdillDralla AierkenErden UyghurEsther ChenCeline CheungJessica MaWhitney ChiWinnie GuoGabriel FurmanJoshua De JesusDivina ItoJasmin RichardsonTien-Li WuLynn XiongMyrna CabelloAustin Owens KellyNasi MirsalahuddinDoug YasudaBernadette QuigleyJames DiGiacomoEddie YuMichelle MaoSze ChanMingjie LiSharon GeeJack WilliamsMick DempseyNnamdi NwosaWay ZenEon SongLillian ZhouJing XuTJ LeeFady KerkoClem CheungBret BaileyJohn Maria GutierrezMatt MeinsenImaan Rizwan

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