Walking on the Wild Side
6.6
Han Jie’s feature debut draws on his own experiences growing up in a desolate mining district in northern China’s Shanxi province. A Chinese road movie, Walking on the Wild Side charts a young gang’s continuous flights from one kind of trouble to the next. Mirroring the stark and barren landscape, the film relays the grim story of these delinquents’ dreams of liberty and easy money. Played by nonprofessional actors who are real life troublemakers, the film offers a realism that is at once oppressive, cruel, and sympathetic.
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Cast
16 people
Han Jie Director · Xu Wei Cinematographer
First release March 24, 2006 · Produced in China, France · Production Les Petites Lumieres, Fonds Sud Cinéma
Production
Xstream Pictures
Production
Les Petites Lumieres
Production
Fonds Sud Cinéma
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Hubert Bals Fund
Production
China · France
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Languages
Original title
赖小子
Original language
Chinese
Spoken on screen
Chinese
Release dates
Netherlands · March 24, 2006
Theatrical
China · April 10, 2006
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
July 4, 2006 · La Rochelle Film Festival
Hong Kong SAR China
April 10, 2006 · Hong Kong International Film Festival
Indonesia
December 10, 2006 · Jakarta International Film Festival
Mexico
February 21, 2007 · Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo de la Ciudad de México
Switzerland
August 11, 2009 · Locarno Film Festival
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