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Directed by Johnny Ma
1971, Canada & China, 80 min
Mandarin with English subtitles
This impressive feature debut takes us on an unnerving trip through China’s social strata. For taxi driver Lao Shai (Chen Gang in an extraordinary performance) every day of work is a fight for his family’s basic economic survival. One day swerving his car – because his arm was grabbed by a drunken passenger – he accidently hits a motorcyclist. Plunged into a bureaucratic nightmare and faced with financial ruin he is forced to embrace retribution as his only escape.
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