Unknown Pleasures

Original title: Ren xiao yao

2002
Unrated
1h 52m

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Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.

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6.8/10

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Awards
- 2 wins & 5 nominations total

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Wei Wei Zhao

Bin Bin

Qiong Wu

Xiao Ji

Tao Zhao

Qiao Qiao

Qing Feng Zhou

Yuan Yuan

Hongwei Wang

Xiao Wu

Ru Bai

Bin Bin's mother

Xi An Liu

Xiao Ji's father

Shou Lin Xu

Sister Zhu

Dao Xiao

Mr. Ren

Zi Ying

Concubine

Zhubin Li

Qiao San

Min Liu

Policeman

Ai Jun Ren

The Hairdresser

Limin Wang

The Karaoke Customer
(as Wang Li Min)

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Jia Zhang-ke

Man singing in street
(uncredited)

Director
- Jia Zhang-ke
Writer
- Jia Zhang-ke
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Trivia
Mandarin title refers to a song by Richie Jen

Connections
Features Havoc in Heaven (1961)

User reviews24

Review

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6/10

Gritty but boring

I saw this film at the IFP LA Film Festival on June 16, 2003. It started out pretty well, but became aimless and sort of meandered. I couldn't root for any of the characters. The background of economically depressed mainland China is interesting, but only for a while. After half an hour, I wanted characters I cared about, but this movie didn't have any. It's not that the young actors weren't talented, it's just that the script was anti-climatic and didn't leave me wanting more, I just wanted the movie to end.