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Blind Shaft
Directed by
Li Yang
Not Rated
2003
1h 32m
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7.6
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Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.
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Cast of Blind Shaft
Li Yixiang
Song Jinming
Wang Baoqiang
Yuan Fengming
Wang Shuangbao
Tang Zhaoyang
Jing Ai
Xiao Hong
Bao Zhenjiang
First Boss
Sun Wei
Tang Zhaoxia
Zhao Jun
Miss Ma
Wang Yining
Mamasan
Sun Haiying
Li Yang
Director / Screenplay / Producer / Editor
Wang Yu
Producer
Liu Yonghong
Director Of Photography
Yadong Zhang
Original Music Composer
Blind Shaft Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
This cunning noir focuses on two ruthless coal miners who drift from one illegal mine to another, working the perfect scam...
World Socialist Web Site
David Walsh
Mang jing is not the end-all and be-all of filmmaking, but it is a sharp-eyed, truthful work done with compassion. Where is the European, North American, Japanese or Australian equivalent?
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
As a thriller, it's a pretty solid affair -- and there's no getting away from how unsettling the tone is.
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
An auspicious first feature; although relentlessly benighted, it is nevertheless beautifully filmed and well-acted.
WBAI Web Radio
Prairie Miller
A descent into the hellish depths of one of those many recently privatized coal mines under China's new flirtation with the market economy.
Filmcritic.com
Don Willmott
a spare and spine-tingling exercise in pure Hitchcockian suspense
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Fresh, stark and consistently uncompromising, Li Yang's Blind Shaft is an exceptional Chinese film noir.
Chicago Tribune
Ellen Fox
Engrossing because of its amazingly well-documented milieu, which German-trained writer-director Li Yang filmed on location in the northern provinces.
Los Angeles Times
Manohla Dargis
Makes for gripping, merciless drama.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
Taught and stylish.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Following the story is like walking down a mine shaft. Even with a weak headlamp, you kind of know where it's going, and it can't be good. But follow it you do, thanks to Yang's relentless, verite-style filmmaking.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Slow going, but it provides an absorbing glimpse of a rarely seen side of Chinese life.
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
The murder-plot angle is never completely plausible, but filmmaker Li Yang overcomes it with a searing depiction of economic desperation and moral alienation.
Variety
Derek Elley
Blind Shaft has a low-key power that comes as much from its off-handed approach to the dark material as from any techniques.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
From the first shot to the last, we're in the hands of a masterly storyteller.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Less striking for its storyline than for the world it presents -- a rural moonscape of coal-dust, casual environmental disaster, and atavistic behavior.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A stunning indictment of China's economic miracle and announces the arrival of a director to watch.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
It's the last thing you'd expect: a movie that is a commentary on socialism, a film noir and entirely compelling. But that is the case with Li Yang's Blind Shaft.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Harsh and compelling, Li Yang's Blind Shaft has the focused intensity of a vintage B movie.
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