In his latest film, Jia Zhang-Ke captures the dog-eat-dog desperation and violence that becomes commonplace when a country is in the throes of increasing commercialisation, writes Nicholas Godfrey.
Additional keywords: China, Asia, murder, crime, action, thriller, society.
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