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7.3/10 • 22

2015-05-011h 43m

AdventureDramaComedy

With his directorial debut actor Chen Jianbin walks in the footsteps of A Touch of Sin, No Man’s Land, and Black Coal, Thin Ice and offers a hard-edged mainland noir where kindness and cruelty, madness and reason, greed and humanity all struggle for dominance and the fool might not be who you think . The hook here is Chen’s amazing performance as the simple, slightly crude Latioazi, a goat farmer who has a son in jail. When a young mentally handicapped man follows him home one day and enters his life, it sets off a blaze and a chain of events follows, which bares China’s class divide raw. His random act of reluctant kindness invites a parade of strangers and grifters all intent on draining Latioazi of what little he has.

Directors
Chen Jianbin

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  1. Chen Jianbin

    Chen Jianbin

    La Tiaozi

  2. Jiang Qinqin

    Jiang Qinqin

    Jin Zhizi

  3. Wang Xuebing

    Wang Xuebing

    Brother Li

  4. Jin Shijia

    Jin Shijia

    Shao Zi

  5. Xufeng Wang

    Xufeng Wang

    Li Laosan

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Status
Released
Original Language
Chinese
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