Pickpocket
1998 · Movie · 113 min · ★ 7.2 · 95% critics
In a small Chinese town changing fast around him, a petty thief struggles as old friends chase respectability and new pressures close in. Drifting between family tension, a tentative connection, and daily survival, he grows more isolated and bitter.
Also known as The Pickpocket
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Details
- Original title
- 小武
- Years
- 1998
- Release date
- 1997-08-01
- Language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (124 votes)
About
You may like this if you connect with quiet, melancholy character studies about people left behind by social change, especially if you liked Still Life; Not for you if you need a fast plot or uplifting energy.
Pros: vivid sense of place; emotionally honest portrait; haunting, lonely atmosphere | Cons: very slow pace; bleak tone throughout; hard to warm to
Cast & crew
Wang Hongwei
as Xiao Wu
Hao Hongjian
as Jin Xiaoyong
- BZ
Baitao Zuo
as Hu Meimei
- MJ
Ma Jinrei
- LJ
Liu Junying
- YL
Yonghao Liang
- AQ
An Qunyan
as Pharmacy Owner
- DJ
Dongdong Jiang
- ZL
Zhao Long
- LZ
Long Zhao
Directed by Jia Zhangke