- HD 1080
- Runtime: 107m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: zh
- Country: China
- Director: Chen Kaige
- Stars: Xie Yuan, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen, Caimei Zhang, Guoqing Xu
- Production_studio: Xi'an Film Studio
- The King of the Children is featured in the top rankings of 1987
- #42 in Top Drama Movies of 1987
An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings.