Ash Is Purest White
Florida Premiere
Country: China
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
Original Title: 江湖儿女
Running Time: 135min
Film Year: 2018
Category: Knight Marimbas Award
Qiao (Miami Film Festival 2015 Knight Best Performance winner Zhao Tao) is devoted to her mobster lover, Bin (Liao Fan). During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him and ends up spending five years in prison for her act of loyalty. In his latest time-spanning epic, Jia Zhang-Ke fuses his renowned contemplative texture with genre elements to create a big-budget gangster tale of striking majesty, further consolidating his position as one of China’s greatest living filmmakers.
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credits
Director: Jia Zhang-Ke
Producer: Shozo Ichiyama
Screenwriter: Jia Zhang-Ke
Executive Producer: Ren Zhonglun, Jia Zhang-Ke, Dong Ping, Nathanael & Elisha Karmitz, Liu Shiyu, Zhu Weijie, Yang Jinsong
Production Company: MK Productions
Music: Lim Giong
Cinematographer: Eric Gautier
Editor: Matthieu Laclau, Lin Xudong
Jia Zhang-Ke
Jia Zhang-Ke was born in Fenyang, Shanxi Province of China. His debut feature Xiao Wu (1998) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, receiving the NETPAC and Wolfgang Staudte Awards. Since then, his films have routinely premiered at the most important international film festivals. 24 City (2008) and Mountains May Depart (2015) were also official selections of the Miami Film Festival. Ash Is Purest White (2018) premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
