China Synopsis
左耳
Li Er, a 17 year old girl who has great difficulty hearing out of her left ear, is rejected after confessing her love to a boy, Xu yi. Instead the boy is in love with Li Bala, a girl who is in fact in love with Zhang Yang. Li Er befriends Li Bala, who dies due to an accident. As the movie progresses, Li Er overcomes her hatred of Zhang Yang, whom she blamed for Li Bala's death.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Left Ear. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Beijing Enlight Pictures
Drama + Romance in China
85 China titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Romance genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Left Ear itself).
The 2014–2016 China Window
The Left Ear holds position #68 of 143 China films in the 2014–2016 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s China Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in China, 515 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Left Ear premiered alongside 43 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 43 other China films in 2015.
The 387th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Audience Engagement
29 audience reviews — more than 51% of China films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 43th percentile among China films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Left Ear, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- smoking · 5
- drinking · 5
- high school to working life · 1
- dating violence · 1
- deafness · 1
- schoolgirl · 22
- deaf · 10
- love · 123
- romance · 94
- school · 82
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #596 of 946 China films indexed here (37th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.3 points below the China average of 6.7/10.
Among China Drama productions specifically: #376 of 547 (top 69%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Chinese |
| Production Companies | Beijing Enlight Pictures |
| Runtime | 2h 0m |
| Release Date | April 24, 2015 |
| IMDb | tt4545806 |