Ash Is Purest White (2018) on Netflix
In 2001, Datong is a poor mining city where Bin, a mob boss, has Qiao at his side. When motorcyclists come to dethrone him, she fires his handgun to drive them off.
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Plot summary
In 2001, Qiao and her boyfriend Bin hold power in Datong, an old mining city grown poor since coal prices fell. Bin is a mob boss in the jianghu. After his boss is murdered, Qiao suggests they leave everything behind and marry, but Bin refuses. One night motorcyclists attack Bin and his driver, saying they have come to dethrone him, and Qiao picks up his handgun and fires two shots into the air; the attackers flee. The police ask Qiao whose gun it is, and she claims it as hers. She serves five years in prison, and Bin never visits. Once released, she tries to reach him and travels by boat to Hubei province.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ash Is Purest White (2018)
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- Jia Zhangke loosely based Ash Is Purest White's story on a gang leader from his own childhood, a man he had admired as a role model.
