Can't wait to see this!

I'm not too sure about this, but based on the Pinyin spelling of the Mandarin title, I'd say it could possibly be a sequal to In the Heat of the Sun.

If you're unaware, the Mandarin language has 4 basic tones (flat, rising, falling-then-rising, and falling) ... since the IMDB site does not display the accents over the characters for the Pinyin representation of the title, it is difficult to tell what some of the words are intended to mean (since there are a plethora of words that they can be translated to, based on context and which of the four tones the word utilizes).

"taiyang zai ci shengqi" basically means The sun rises once again.

I've still not concluded what is meant by "Dang", which, depending on the tone, can mean that something is being put off for a later time, something is being hindered, it can simply mean "to be," which could be lost in the translation if that were the intended meaning. Or it can mean party, or be a type of stone, or represent the sound of metal, as in a bell ringing (onomatopoeia).

So you can come to your own conclusions based on what little we know from IMDB's accent-less Pinyin representation of the title.

Either way, I'd say the themes of the Sun are definitely here again.

I saw this film tonight and thought it extraordinarily moving, beautiful, funny, sad and poetic.
Like any good modern poem, it needs another viewing as to more fully comprehend it, since the narrative is deconstructed in a fascinating way.

I think it is one of the few examples of Magical Realism in film that really works.

And the cinematography is to die for. There are several unforgettable scenes, such as a sequence toward the end of the film involving a wedding celebration and a moving train.