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The Beloved (2015 film)

2015 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ19856324 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Beloved (Chinese: 重生爱人) is a 2015 Chinese suspense romance film directed by Cao Dawei. It was released on May 15, 2015 in China.

Cast

Wang Likun

Kim Bum

Joe Cheng

Guan Yu

Li Haoyu

Zhang Cheng

Jiang Peiyan

Toby Lee

Reception

By May 15, the film had grossed CN¥2.12 million at the Chinese box office.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Beloved (2015 film)” is 2015 film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Beloved and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015. For this dossier, Beloved and film is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2015 film” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 Q19856324. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow The Beloved (2015 film) primary sources, The Beloved (2015 film) archive and Beloved research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Beloved (2015 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.