Set in China’s underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows Qiao, a dancer who fires a few warning shots during a fight and then, after lying to protect her gangster lover Bin from a long prison sentence, ends up in jail herself. When she’s released five years later into a changed world, she goes in search of Bin, who has been mysteriously silent during her imprisonment…

Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune wrote:
The exquisite Ash Is Purest White owes some of its richness to the movies, particularly crime and gangster movies in various languages.The rest of it comes from the poetic eye of writer-director Jia Zhangke, who shows us what he feels about the real world as represented by contemporary China — its telling details, creased faces and panoramic visions of progress bulldozing its way into the future, at a great many people’s expense. This is one of Zhangke’s peak achievements: pure cinema, and a story of the underworld unlike anything you’ve seen before…Some films present a feast for the eye with great flourish and extravagance. This one is a different kind of feast. If there’s a director alive whose compositions breathe more easily and move a story forward with a more stimulating variety of visual strategies, let me know.

Ash.Is.Purest.White.2018.720p.BluRay.x264-PbK.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 15 min
Size: 	6.25 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1280x694 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	6 130 kb/s
BPP: 	0.288
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#1:  	Chinese 5.1ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s (Mandarin)

https://nitro.download/view/943DC55113F387C/Ash.Is.Purest.White.2018.720p.BluRay.x264-PbK.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/CDBAC7AD0281A27/Ash.Is.Purest.White.PbK.English_corrected.srt

Language:Mandarin
Subtitles: English; Simplified Chinese (PGS/sup); Traditional Chinese (PGS/sup); Indonesian (srt); Brazilian Portuguese (srt).

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Yun Fei, a young poet, seeks the advice of an old university friend who lives in the Beijing suburbs, discovering that his friend has gone into business breeding black chickens. Discouraged about his future as a poet, Yun Fei starts a relationship with a colorblind young girl who encourages him to persevere. But even this new relationship is not enough to inspire him to write. It’s at this point that he buys a pirated record whose magical powers bring him the success he’s longed for. However, sudden fame does not seem to solve everything. The first film of Beijing theatre director Meng Jing Hui, Chicken Poets is an insightful and poetic look at materialism and the younger generation in China.

Chicken.Poets.2002.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 32 min
Size: 	1.37 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	690x418 ~> 743x418
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 849 kb/s
BPP: 	0.256
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#1:  	Chinese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/1917EB785840425/Chicken.Poets.2002.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English, Chinese

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A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.

3.56GB | 1 h 50 min | 1280×688 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/73BB0E0EFE1704E/The.Wild.Goose.Lake.2019.720p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-TEPES.mkv

Language(s):Chinese
Subtitles:English

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Northern China, 1999. The grisly discovery of several corpses is made in a small town. A bloody incident during the attempt to capture the alleged murderer leaves two police officers dead and another badly injured. The surviving officer Zhang Zili is suspended from duty; he takes a job as a security guard at a factory. Five years later, another series of mysterious murders occurs. Aided by a former colleague, Zhang decides to investigate under his own initiative. He discovers that all the victims were connected to Wu Zhizhen, a young woman who works at a dry cleaners. Pretending to be a customer, Zhang begins to observe her and finds himself falling in love with the reticent Wu Zhizhen. One cold winter’s day he makes a horrific discovery. His life now in danger, he realises it is not always possible to separate guilt from innocence. Diao Yinan’s use of the characters of the ex-police officer and the femme fatale is a direct reference to classic detective films. This director’s third feature is a noirish thriller in drained colours which, whilst playfully alluding to the genre, also invites us into the lives of very ordinary people. (-berlinale.de)

1.90GB | 01:44:50 | 1024 x 552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C6968D54FC1BC93/Black_Coal_Thin_Ice_2014_PAL_DVD_DD5.1_x264-Ve2.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English

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