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Released 12 years ago.
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Uncle Victory
2014 1h 45m ZH
Drama
Synopsis
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Chen Shengli, 40, is a dapper ex-con with a spine of steel, who used to hang out with some very bad people. But he’s determined to reform. He returns to the old theatre he owns, where he discovers that a kindergarten now ensconced there can’t pay the rent. The local cops suggest he should run it himself. Which he undertakes to do, with the assistance of Sun Xiaomei, a gorgeous, tough-as-nails nurse who moonlights as a dancer in a seedy local ballroom, which is where they first met. Kindergarten seems to soften Shengli (who still harbours a scarily violent streak), and something like a romance with Xiaomei kindles. But those shady former associates have long-held grudges and won’t let Shengli go…
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Zhang Xinyi
Huang Haibo
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Zhang Meng
- Writers
- Zhang Meng
- Languages
- Mandarin
- Countries
- China
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The take
Zhang Meng directs. Jeremy Zhou behind the camera. Produced in China. Dialogue in Mandarin.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Released 12 years ago.
- 2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 3Directed by Zhang Meng, shot by Jeremy Zhou. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 4Zhang Xinyi and Huang Haibo carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt4455880 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Jeremy Zhou
- Runtime
- 105 min · 1h 45m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- ZH
Also by
Zhang Meng
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical2014-11-08
Also known as
International titles
- 我的身上有刺青CN
- Uncle VictoryUS
