The Lychee Road

Name: The Lychee Road
Duration: 2 h 2 min
Rating: 3

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A Tang Dynasty minor official risks everything to deliver lychees across China. Li Shande, middle-aged and struggling, sees this dangerous mission as his last… More Details »

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Release Date:

Jul 25, 2025

Runtime:

2hr 2m

Synopsis

A Tang Dynasty minor official risks everything to deliver lychees across China. Li Shande, middle-aged and struggling, sees this dangerous mission as his last chance for success.

Moviegoers are saying

This Chinese period drama about a mathematician tasked with delivering fresh lychees across 5000 miles transforms from seemingly silly premise into a surprisingly profound meditation on power, exploitation, and sacrifice. Audiences are consistently caught off-guard by how this 'wacky fruit delivery story' evolves into a bitter commentary on bureaucracy and the human cost of serving the elite's whims.

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Mind-Bending

Politically-Charged

Visually-Stunning

Darkly-Comic

Thought-Provoking

Bureaucracy-Nightmare

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RATINGS 5 FANS

3.4

Jul 29, 2025

This is a very silly movie about a guy whose super power is mental math skills. Under threat of death, he’s forced to do logistics and figure out how to complete a 31 day journey efficiently and effectively enough to deliver a fresh fruit that spoils in 3 days. And I feel…

46 Likes

Sienna Devonian

Jan 9, 2026

62/100. Even if I fail, I want them to know how close I was to the finish line.Visuals are pleasant to watch in this Chinese period drama which raises important questions. It's about a maths scholar assigned on a task to deliver Lychee to a city set 5000 miles apart while…

43 Likes

krishnaprasatG

Jul 13, 2025

Lychee gotta be the most overrated fruit 😭

35 Likes

Realkinoshit
Jul 29, 2025

bureaucracy hates to see a hard working lychee envoy winning

24 Likes

NicotinaVapors

Aug 26, 2025

me: it’s gonna be a wacky story about a guy transporting lychees heeheehaha this movie: the poor get poorer while the rich get richer off exploiting the labour of everyone else. these lychees are stained with the blood of a thousand men. i’m gonna get slapped by my…

22 Likes

remy

Jan 31, 2026

I genuinely liked this one. After Chang’an (2023), another Tang dynasty story unfolding around the An Lushan Rebellion, it really starts to feel like exile might’ve been the kindest ending anyone could hope for. This is the “golden age” of the Tang dynasty: a thousand fine…

21 Likes

Ayu
Aug 16, 2025

i liked the recurring bit of him wanting to be slapped by his wife i wanna find someone like her who when suggested the idea of divorce just hits him and he decides to stay married

21 Likes

Jam

Jul 28, 2025

Somehow I forgot that I had watched this before my Mystery Movie Monday experience 😅 but ya, I actually loved this for the most part. Some distracting special effects in parts but it didn't take away from this intense story about a guy trying to transport fresh Lychee to…

19 Likes

Caleb Chadwick

Jul 30, 2025

This is the amount of effort I expect when I order DoorDash.

19 Likes

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