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Perfect Imperfection (film)

2016 Chinese romantic drama film directed by Chen Bing

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ27964573 ↗
Source-derived summary

Perfect Imperfection is a 2016 Chinese romantic drama film directed by Chen Bing and starring Ady An and Ahn Jae-hyun. It was released in China on 25 November 2016. It won the Golden Angel Award for Film at the 12th Chinese American Film Festival.

Plot

Cast

Ady An as Ye Xiaomeng

Ahn Jae-hyun as Leng An

Alex Fong as David

Song Jiayang

Wang Shuaishuai as Yaoyao

Zhang Xun

Wong Yut Fei as Dai Ding

Kingdom Yuen

Ye Yiqian

Reception

The film has grossed CN¥4.4 million at the Chinese box office.

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“Perfect Imperfection (film)” enters the record as 2016 Chinese romantic drama film directed by Chen Bing. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Perfect, Imperfection and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27964573. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Perfect Imperfection (film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.