2008 | China, Japan, Hong Kong | Documentary

24 City

  • Mandarin, x-suji English, French 112 mins
  • Director | Jia Zhang-Ke
  • Writer | Yongming Zhai, Jia Zhang-ke
  • Producer | Shozo Ichiyama, Jia Zhang-Ke, Chow Keung, Satoshi Kubo, Ning Ma, Masayuki Mori, Zhonglun Ren, Yuji Sadai, Yong Tang, Hong Wang, Pengle Xu, Takio Yoshida, Jiong Zhu

STATUS: Released

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In Chengdu, a former arms factory, the pride of the city during the Maoist era, is gradually being dismantled to make way for luxury accommodation. While recording the memories of the former workers, Jia Zhang-Ke hybridises the documentary approach by using professional actors and inserting poems as intertitles, as in the age of silent films.

Memory Industrialization Displacement Poetry History
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