Blind Shaft (Mang Jing)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 17, 2004
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Kino Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Wang Shuangbao, Li Yixiang & An Jing | |
Performer: | Baoqiang Wang & Bao Zhenjiang | |
Directed by | Li Yang | |
Screenwriting by | Li Yang | |
Produced by | Li Yang | |
Director of Photography: | Liu Yonghong |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
A disturbing morality tale that questions how far one will go to survive under such conditions.
Salt Lake Tribune
Rating: 3/4 --
This crafty little character piece keeps you guessing. If that wasn't enough, it also gets in some social commentary.
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Slow going, but it provides an absorbing glimpse of a rarely seen side of Chinese life.
Washington Post
A descent into the hellish depths of one of those many recently privatized coal mines under China's new flirtation with the market economy.
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WBAI Web Radio
Yang's film is taut and stylish...
Box Office
Rating: 4/5 --
As a thriller, it's a pretty solid affair -- and there's no getting away from how unsettling the tone is.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The twisted tale, told with black and bitter humour and robust language, reaches a conclusion of tortured and wholly satisfying irony.
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London Evening Standard
Product Description:
With a suspenseful plotline that keeps viewers glued to the screen awaiting each new development in this harsh tale of miners and murder in northern China, BLIND SHAFT depicts desperate men who will do anything for money. Controversial in its commentary on China's social problems, with characters poisoned by greed and infidelity having abandoned their families and lost any sense of dignity, the story is anything but simple. Mid-way through, the film it takes an endearing turn that changes the plotline into a true morality tale, which is followed up by a completely unexpected ending.
Two con men, Song (Li Yixiang) and Tang (Wang Shuangbao), have devised a nearly flawless scam. They coerce a man into posing as their brother--explaining that it's the only way they can get him a job in the coal mine--and then they murder him. They make it look like a mining accident, and collect a hefty sum from the mine owner for their loss. Instead of sending all the money home to their school-age children, they spend much of it on prostitutes. When they choose their next victim, Yuan (Wang Baoqiang), a teenage boy trying to earn money for school, they instantly sense that something, this time around, is wrong. Writer-director-producer Li Yang has created a richly layered film with BLIND SHAFT, which was banned in China because it was made without permission from the official film bureau.
Two con men, Song (Li Yixiang) and Tang (Wang Shuangbao), have devised a nearly flawless scam. They coerce a man into posing as their brother--explaining that it's the only way they can get him a job in the coal mine--and then they murder him. They make it look like a mining accident, and collect a hefty sum from the mine owner for their loss. Instead of sending all the money home to their school-age children, they spend much of it on prostitutes. When they choose their next victim, Yuan (Wang Baoqiang), a teenage boy trying to earn money for school, they instantly sense that something, this time around, is wrong. Writer-director-producer Li Yang has created a richly layered film with BLIND SHAFT, which was banned in China because it was made without permission from the official film bureau.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 90,332
- UPC: 738329037222
- Shipping Weight: 0.32/lbs (approx)
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