director: Jia Zhangke
composer: Giong Lim
With: Wu Jiang (Dahai), Vivien Li, Lanshan Luo (Xiao Hui), Baoqiang Wang (Zhou San), Jia-yi Zhang, Tao Zhao (Xiao Yu), a.o.
Internationally acclaimed Chinese master Jia Zhangke (The World) won the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes for this startling - and startlingly violent - modern wuxia tale of four outcasts on the margins of a rapidly changing China, who channel their underclass rage into a bloody and murderous rampage.
JIA ZHANGKE (1970): Xiaoshan huijia (1995), Pickpocket (1997), Platform (2000), The Condition of Dogs (2001, documentary short), In Public (2001, short), Unknown Pleasures (2002), The World (2004), Still Life (2006), Dong (2006, documentary), Wuyong (2007, documentary), Our Ten Years (2007, short), 24 City (2008), Heshang aiqing (2008, short), Stories on Human Rights (2008), Shi nian (2009, video short), I Wish I Knew (2010, documentary), Yulu (2011, documentary), A Touch of Sin (2013)