Postmen in the mountains (1999)

Havent been watching very many movies recently. Finally watched Postmen in the Mountains, a chinese film. Simple and extraordinarily beautiful, its the story of an aging postman, who for years had been traversing the quite arduous mail routes in Hunan in China, with his faithful dog for company. Finallya age catches up to him and he retires, but his son becomes the new postman. The movie is about the son's first trip, which also becomes father's farewell trip, when the dog refuses to go with his son, and so he decides to tag along to show the route and the people along the way to his son.
Quite an awesome movie, with such a simple plot. Music is pretty nice. But the topping was the scenery. Some of the most stunning scenery to be put in a film, Incidentally, Bird People in China is set in the similar sounding Yunan province, as is Zhang Yimou's Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is set in the nearby Sichuan province. All of them boast of extraordinary locales. cant wait to go to China now!)
Werner Herzog has some movies, which also have some spiffing scenery like Aguirre Wrath of Gods, set in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the Andes and also in Rescue Dawn, set in Vietnam.
Photos are a poster of Postmen in the Mountains, of Balzac and Bird People in China. Others are screenshots of Postmen in the Mountains.