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Back to Back, Face to Face

1994 · 148 min

A slow-burning, wryly observant satire of bureaucratic scheming that keeps you engaged with its tense power struggles and cynical wit.

Directed by
Huang Jianxin, Yang Yazhou
Genres
Drama
Starring
Niu Zhen-Hua, Lei Kesheng, Li Qiang
Overview
Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director.

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Directed by
Huang Jianxin, Yang Yazhou
Genres
Drama
Starring
Niu Zhen-Hua, Lei Kesheng, Li Qiang
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • corruption
  • politics
  • work
  • betrayal
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Huang Jianxin, Yang Yazhou
Written by
Sun Yi’an, Huang Jianxin
Starring
Niu Zhen-Hua, Lei Kesheng, Li Qiang, Ju Hao, Liu Guoxiang, Xu Xuezheng, Haihai Lin, Wang Jinsong
Runtime
148 min
Country
China
Languages
Mandarin

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