A Young Prisoner's Revenge

China 2001, 90 minutes
Dir. Mu Deyuan
In Mandarin with English subtitles
Rating: [PG]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama / Prison

Aroview: Obscure, but supposedly award winning Chinese drama concerns the botched plans of a couple to bribe a judge so their son, guilty of robbery, gets a light sentence (his mother even sells a kidney!) It all goes wrong however and seething in prison, he vows to infiltrate the life of the judge upon release, but instead finds that all is not what it seems in the corrupt world of the courts.