Old Stone

Johnny Ma's gripping criminal thriller...deploys powerful performances and eerie imagery to convey the moral breakdown of an upstanding taxi driver.
-- Clarence Tsui, Hollywood Reporter

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Old Stone

In Johnny Ma’s thrilling debut feature, a Chinese taxi driver finds himself plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare where no good deed goes unpunished. Beginning as a gritty social-realist drama before u-turning into a blood-drenched noir, Old Stone follows the repercussions of a car accident in a society where life is cheap and compassion is ruinously expensive.

When a drunken passenger causes Lao Shi to swerve and hit a motorcyclist, the driver stops to help the injured man. When no police or ambulance arrive he drives the victim to the hospital, checks him in and finds himself liable for the man's medical bills. The repercussions of Shi's selfless act expose a society rife with bone-chilling callousness and bureaucratic indifference. On the verge of losing his cab, his job and his family, Lao Shi (in a magnificent performance by Chen Gang) has to resort to desperate measures to survive.
Not Rated
Genre
Thriller
Runtime
80
Language
Mandarin
Director
Johnny Ma
Writer(s)
Johnny Ma
Cast
Gang Chen, Nai An, Hongwei Wang
FEATURED REVIEW
Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com

Back when I was a young and feckless Jersey guy driving around with my friends, we had a running joke about how many “points” applied to mowing down some dope who was crossing against the light or jaywalking directly into your car’s approaching fender. The more inappropriate or sacred the ostensible ...

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