"Blind Shaft" (Mang Jing) is the best Chinese movie I've ever seen
It's about two or three years old, and tells the story of a pair of con-men who get jobs in various coal mines. They masquerade as the relatives of some other worker, kill him, make it look like a mining accident and then shake down the owner for wrongful death compensation (actual accidental deaths are so common that no one ever suspects a thing.) Then they move on to another mine and repeat the process. It's shot in a documentary style, plot wise it's practically film noir, and thematically it's vicious social critique. Highly, HIGHLY recommended.
Director Yang Li (no relation to Ang Lee that I can tell) is jumping to the top of my list of favorite contemporary filmmakers, if he can keep this level of quality up.
All my fight strategy is based on deliberately injuring my opponents. -
Crippled Avenger
"It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever get near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propoganda visits...Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecendented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him."
First you get good, then you get fast, then you get good and fast.