A Touch of Sin (2013) on Netflix
Dahai rages at corruption around his village's coal mine. San'er comes home for New Year with a gun. Xiaoyu takes a married lover, and Xiaohui drifts between factory jobs.
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Plot summary
Four stories unfold in different provinces of China. Dahai speaks for the workers at a privatized coal mine in Shanxi, and he is angry that the village stays poor while its officials grow rich through lying and bribery. On rural roads a motorbike rider, San'er, is stopped by three men who try to rob him. He travels to Chongqing for Chinese New Year and his mother's seventieth birthday, and his estranged wife rejects the money he brings the family. In Yichang, Xiaoyu works at a spa reception desk and gives her married lover Youliang six months to divorce his wife. In Guangdong, Xiaohui causes an accident at a textile factory, leaves the job, and finds work at a hostess club in Dongguan, where he befriends Lianrong, another Hunan native.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Touch of Sin (2013)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- One of the film's four segments is based on the spate of worker suicides at locations and facilities owned by Foxconn between 2010 and 2013.
- In May 2013 A Touch of Sin was announced as cleared for release in mainland China with a 9 November date, but by December 2013 it still had not been cleared by censors.
- One of the film's segments is based on the Deng Yujiao incident, a real case that took place in 2009.
- The story of San'er is loosely based on Zhou Kehua, a gunman who committed several murders and robberies between 2004 and 2012.
