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  • Starring: Tong Wang, Yu Shi
  • Summary: Set in Shanghai, this is the story two migrants from the countryside who move to the big city and follow divergent paths toward what they hope will be happy lives -- one as a worker, the other as a crook.

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    80
    So moving and so timely.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    The result is a film that is wise, fatalistic and romantic in just the right proportions--in the best noir tradition.
  3. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    60
    The texture is reminiscent of last year's "Suzhou River," but the basic material isn't as rich.

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