Unknown Pleasures

IMDb link: 0318025
IMDb rating: 6.8 (2,836 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Zhangke Jia
Cast: Wei Wei Zhao, Qiong Wu, Tao Zhao, Qing Feng Zhou and others

Release date: 22 Jan 2003
Release year: 2002
Runtime: 112 minutes
Country: China, Japan, South Korea, France
Keywords: youth, china, teenager, contemplative cinema, cell phone, smoking, ennui, bank, television, massage

Plot:

Two unemployed slackers, neither with job prospects nor motivation, hang out in sheltered town in China trying to make sense of their aimless and uncertain futures. As youths, they struggle for individual freedom and the social responsibility that comes along with it.

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