Bibliograph

Ren xiao yao, Unknown pleasures / Office Kitano, Lumen Films, E-Pictures present ; a T-Mark, Inc., Hu Tong Communication production ; in association with Bitters End ; producers, Shozo Ichiyama, Li Kit-ming ; director/scriptwriter, Jia ZhangKe ; a film by Jia ZhangKe, a New Yorker Films release ; Office Kitano, Lumen Films, E-Pictures present ; a T-Mark, Inc., Hu Tong Communication production ; in association with Bitters End ; jian zhi, Shishan Shangsan, Li JieMing ; Jia Zhangke zuo pin ; bian ju, dao yan Jia Zhangke

Type

Label

Ren xiao yao, Unknown pleasures / Office Kitano, Lumen Films, E-Pictures present ; a T-Mark, Inc., Hu Tong Communication production ; in association with Bitters End ; producers, Shozo Ichiyama, Li Kit-ming ; director/scriptwriter, Jia ZhangKe ; a film by Jia ZhangKe, a New Yorker Films release ; Office Kitano, Lumen Films, E-Pictures present ; a T-Mark, Inc., Hu Tong Communication production ; in association with Bitters End ; jian zhi, Shishan Shangsan, Li JieMing ; Jia Zhangke zuo pin ; bian ju, dao yan Jia Zhangke

Language

chi

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Ren xiao yao

Oclc number

54025799

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Originally produced as a Chinese motion picture in 2002

Responsibility statement

a New Yorker Films release ; Office Kitano, Lumen Films, E-Pictures present ; a T-Mark, Inc., Hu Tong Communication production ; in association with Bitters End ; jian zhi, Shishan Shangsan, Li JieMing ; Jia Zhangke zuo pin ; bian ju, dao yan Jia Zhangke

Runtime

113

Sub title

Unknown pleasures / Office Kitano, Lumen Films, E-Pictures present ; a T-Mark, Inc., Hu Tong Communication production ; in association with Bitters End ; producers, Shozo Ichiyama, Li Kit-ming ; director/scriptwriter, Jia ZhangKe ; a film by Jia ZhangKe

Summary

In the industrial city of Datong in Shanxi province, the most dramatic events in the lives of the post 1980 generation take place on TV. Xiao Ji and Bin Bin are jobless, best friends who spend their limitless free time hanging around a pool hall, tooling around on mopeds, and coveting the American dollars that will get them out of their rut. Xiao Ji is interested in Qiao Qiao, a traveling dancer shilling for Mongolian King Liquor, but she can't escape the control of the minor racketeer who acts as her agent. Bin Bin is seeing studious Yuan Yuan, but she is about to leave to attend a university in Beijing. Inspired by the opening scene of "Pulp Fiction, " the two friends hatch a comically misconceived robbery scheme to scrape up some quick money and escape their existential inertia. Promised prosperity and meaningful change, the young can't seem to find, much less reap, these benefits. The friends remain, ultimately, lost--on a misguided search for fleeting, unknown pleasures

Table Of Contents

You poor jerk -- Mongolian King Liquor girl -- Can't we be friends? -- Weird money -- Don't have the courage? -- Hospital -- No instant noodles? -- Having fun? -- On the bus -- That butterfly -- Give me the money -- Very optimistic

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

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Unknown pleasures

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