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Tiny Times

Tiny Times
Directed by	Guo Jingming
Written by	Guo Jingming
Screenplay by	Guo Jingming
Based on	Tiny Times 1.0 by Guo Jingming
Produced by	Li Li An Xiaofen Adam Tsuei Zhou Qiang Angie Chai
Starring	Yang Mi Kai Ko Amber Kuo Rhydian Vaughan Bea Hayden Evonne Hsieh Cheney Chen Li Yueming Jiang Chao
Cinematography	Randy Che[2]
Edited by	Gu Xiaoyun
Music by	Hou Zhijian
Production companies	He Li Chen Guang Media EE-Media Star Ritz Prods. H&R Century Pictures Beijing Forbidden City Film Le Vision Pictures (Tianjin) Le Vision Pictures Shenzhen Desen Intl. Media Amazing Film Studio Comic Ritz Film & TV Culture Mission Media Investment
Distributed by	China Film Group Cooperation (China) Dasheng International Media (China) Le Vision Pictures Co. (China)
Release date	June 27, 2013 (2013-06-27)
Running time	115 minutes[3]
Country	China[1]
Language	Mandarin
Budget	¥45 million (estimated)[2]
Box office	¥484 million (US$79.7 million)[4]

Tiny Times (Chinese: 小时代), also known as Tiny Times 1.0^[2] is the first installment of the film series written and directed by Guo Jingming and based on the best-selling novel of the same name also by Guo.^[1]

The four young women are classmates in high school and roommates in college. On campus, they start their internships and cope with a series of romantic affairs. After graduation, they continue their correspondence, suffused with misunderstanding and jealousy. However, they have all changed significantly.

After graduation, Lin Xiao settles into her job as an editorial assistant at a fashion magazine and acclimating herself to the glamorous, high-octane world of haute couture. She meets her demanding and cold boss, Gong Ming, whose melancholic persona is described by Lin Xiao as “a distant, lonely planet in the universe”. Her work puts her relationship with her high school sweet heart, Jian Xi in peril.

Meanwhile, Gu Li faces struggle in her relationship with Gu Yuan at the intervention of his mother, who seeks to marry him off to an even wealthier family. Nan Xiang paints to support her fashion design studies, while at the same time struggle with her on-and-off relationship with abusive boyfriend Xi Cheng. Wan Ru worries that her aspirations in life are never really made certain, and the fact that she might not get a boyfriend.

• Yang Mi as Lin Xiao
• Kai Ko as Gu Yuan
• Amber Kuo as Gu Li
• Rhydian Vaughan as Gong Ming
• Bea Hayden as Nan Xiang
• Evonne Hsieh as Tang Wanru
• Cheney Chen as Zhou Chongguang
• Li Yueming as Jian Xi
• Jiang Chao as Xi Cheng
• Kitty Shang as Kitty
• Calvin Tu as Wei Hai
• Wang Lin as Ye Chuanping
• Ding Qiaowei as Yuan Yi

The film grossed US$79.7 million at the Chinese box office.^[4]

• Tiny TimesatIMDb