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6.8/10
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Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 5 nominations
Limin Wang
- The Karaoke Customer
- (as Wang Li Min)
Juan Antonio Samaranch
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Jia Zhang-ke
- Man singing in street
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaMandarin title refers to a song by Richie Jen
- ConnectionsFeatures Da nao tian gong (1961)
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Best film yet this year
I'm confused as to why people would still give the pleasant peasant fables of Zhang Yimou house-room now we're offered a view of intense, complex, and contemporary Chinese cinema like this. I adored the extreme negativity of this film's most repetitive moments: Xiao Ji getting slapped about the face ("having a good time?" "yes" "having a good time?" "yes" "having a good time?" "yes" "having a good time?" "yes"...) or trying repeatedly to drive up a slight slope on his motorbike. The very repeatability of film seems to highlight the way that only this silly, essentially boring medium gets at what's going on when stuff happens, in capitalist China as well as at home...
- cantleman@yahoo.co.uk
- Apr 9, 2003
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,254
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,628
- Mar 30, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $55,901
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