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Name: Better Days
Director: Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
Genre: crime, drama, romance
Released: 2019
Duration: 2 h 15 min
Rating: 7.6

Better Days has an iRankMovies score of 83.7/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Better Days (2019)

少年的你

You protect the world. I'll protect you.

Release:2019

Runtime:2h 15m

Country:China

Director:Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung

Language:Chinese

Genre

CrimeDramaRomance

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Keywords

AffectationBullyingThoughtfulBully VictimTenseDepressingDistressingTragic

iRank84

Better Days rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.6/10· 17K votes

Rotten Tomatoes97%

Metacritic83%

TMDb8.1/10· 555 votes

With 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 83/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Better Days

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

Cast of Better Days

Zhou Dongyu
as Chen Nian
Jackson Yee
as Xiao Bei
Yin Fang
as Zheng Yi
Huang Jue
as Lao Yang
Wu Yue
as Chen Nian's Mother
Zhou Ye
as Wei Lai
Zhang Yifan
as Hu Xiaodie
Liu Ran
as Luo Ting
Zhang Xinyi
as Xu Miao
Zhao Runnan
as Da Kang
Gao Xuanming
as Lai Zi
Xie Xintong
as Wang Li

Better Days facts

Original title: 少年的你
Box office: $225.9M

Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026Methodology Data sources

Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Tsang explores bullying and victimhood with compassionate unflinching lens
•Romance subplot provides emotional counterpoint to bleak social reality
•Cinematography transforms ordinary settings into visually stunning compositions