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Unknown Pleasures is Jia's third feature film after 1997's Xiao Wu and 2000s Platform, and it is sometimes considered the final film of an informal trilogy on a modern China in transition. The film also marked Jia's last production outside of the Chinese studio system.
May 23, 2002 · Unknown Pleasures (Chinese Movie); 任逍遥; Two unemployed slackers, neither with job prospects nor motivation, hang out in sheltered town in China trying to
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- Jia Zhang Ke
- China
- Youth, Drama
Unknown Pleasures tests the patience with a look at modern China that can feel as aimless as its characters' lives, but gathers real resonance as it goes along. Read Critics...
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- Tao Zhao
- Zhang-Ke Jia
- Drama
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.
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- Jia Zhangke
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company...
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- Wei Wei Zhao
- Jia Zhangke
Unknown Pleasures is a 2002 Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke, starring Wu Qiong, Zhao Weiwei and Zhao Tao as three disaffected youths living in Datong in 2001,...
Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2002 • China. Starring Wu Qiong, Zhao Wei Wei, Zhao Tao. One of the first great films of the twenty-first century, Jia Zhangke’s third feature (and his first shot on digital) sets an arresting tale of disaffected youth against the backdrop of a changing China.