2 Movies Starring Shuangbao Wang

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-10-09

Languages:

Mandarin, French

Countries:

France, China

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (3678 Reviews)

Director:

Sijie Dai

Cast:

Writer:

Sijie Dai (novel)

Sijie Dai (screenplay)

Nadine Perront

Fullplot:

In 1971 China, in the lingering grip of the cultural revolution, two university students, Luo and Ma, are sent to a mountain mining village as part of their reeducation duty to purge them of their classical western oriented education. Amid the backbreaking work and stifling ignorance of the community, the two boys find that music, and the presence of the beautiful local young women are the only pleasant things in their miserable life. However, none compare to the young seamstress granddaughter of the local tailor. Stealing a departing student's secret cache of forbidden books of classic western literature such as the works of Honore de Balzac, they set about to woo her and teach her things she had never imagined. In doing so, they start a journey that would profoundly change her perspective on her world and teach the boys about the power of literature and their own ability to change their world in truly revolutionary ways.

Blind Shaft

Blind Shaft

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-11-10

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China, Germany, Hong Kong

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1779 Reviews)

Director:

Yang Li

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Fullplot:

Two Chinese coal miners have hit upon the perfect scam: murder one of their fellow mine workers, make the death look like an accident, and extort money from the boss to keep the incident hushed up. For their latest "mark," they choose a naive teenager from a small village, and as they prepare to carry out their newest plan, things start to get complicated...

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