Back to Back, Face to Face

Back to Back, Face to Face

1994 · 148 min · ZH · 7.6 (23 votes)
Dir. Yang Yazhou, Huang Jianxin · Starring Niu Zhen-Hua, Lei Kesheng, Li Qiang, Ju Hao, Liu Guoxiang, Xu Xuezheng · City Trilogy Collection
Drama

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director.

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A tense, simmering drama about ambition and the suffocating weight of bureaucracy. It feels like watching a slow-motion power struggle unfold, where every move is calculated and the air is thick with unspoken threats and cynical maneuvering.

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