Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast steppe grasslands. The magnificent landscape here has changed little since the days of Genghis Kahn. But life in the middle of nowhere can be exciting for a young boy. The smallest of details become big events for curious Bilike and his best friends Erguotou and Dawa. The mystery of the small white ball floating in the creek leads to questions about the world around them, as well as innocent mischief. Bilike’s grandmother says the ball is a glowing pearl from heaven. But the boys are sceptical after waiting all night outdoors for the ball to light up. Since nobody has an idea about the odd white object, they trek to the faraway monastery to consult the wise lamas. But even the grasslands’ most knowledgeable inhabitants are stumped. While watching the new TV-set Dawa’s father has won, the boys learn about pingpong. They are excited to hear that their object is the ‘national ball of China’. Not realizing how far Beijing actually is, the determined young boys set off to return the ball to the Chinese capital…

Lu.cao.di.AKA.Mongolian.Ping.Pong.2005.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 41 min
Size: 	1.87 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	712x568 ~> 1009x568
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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Audio
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https://nitro.download/view/CF0452C2CEC61BD/Lu.cao.di.AKA.Mongolian.Ping.Pong.2005.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Mongolian
Subtitles:English, French, Dutch

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Being shelved for four years over censorship issues sounds like a death knell for any film, and yet in the case of Ning Hao’s No Man’s Land, it may actually have been a considerable boon : indeed, the four-years delay meant that the film came out after the comedy Lost In Thailand, which starred two of the leads of No Man’s Land (Xu Zheng and Huang Bo), and thus became positioned as their follow-up to what is still the all-time highest-grossing Chinese film in China. It did however lose its potential status as China’s very first modern-day set western – with Gao Qunshu’s Wind Blast having been released in the meantime – though in truth it is closer to a film noir than a western, with moody voice-over and a cynical outlook on human nature. It tells of an arrogant big city lawyer (Xu Zheng) who travels to the far west of China to plead the case of a falcon trafficker (Togbye), then tries to rush back to the city to close a book deal on that very case.

But he runs afoul of the trafficker’s scabby assistant (Huang Bo), as well as spiteful cops, angry truck drivers, and sordid petrol station owners, becoming the de facto protector of a desperate prostitute (Yu Nan) in the process. No Man’s Land often recalls Oliver Stone’s U-Turn, with which it shares an almost fantasmagorical level of bad luck and human scum thrust upon an almost unlikeable main character. And like that 1997 film, it starts out delightfully dark and funny, then loses steam with its thudding cynicism and an overdose of plot turns that are less fresh and witty than the director seems to think. Still, it’s a fun ride with great turns from Togbye as a monolithic bandit and Yu Nan as the only likeable character of the film and the incarnation of the softer side of Ning Hao’s pitch dark vision.

15.5GB | 1h 57m | 1955×832 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8FED7540509EDAD/No.Mans.Land.2013.CHINESE.1080p.BluRay.x264.DTS-WiKi.mkv

Language(s):Chinese
Subtitles:English

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