Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal

Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal (2013)

Ni Jing

In a world of hypocrisy, you need to know someone really well, to realize you are strangers

Xiaofan, a young girl who works at a Karaoke Club, awakes one morning in a remote forest with her body covered in blood. As she struggles to find her way out, she tries to understand the drama circumstances which got her into the situation, events mainly related to her unpredictable boyfriend. She needs to make a decision that may change her life.

Date of release
2013-11-09
TMDB
8.1 / 10 (8)
Runtime
29m
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director
Roberto F. Canuto, Xiaoxi Xu

Casting

Interesting facts

Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal is a 2013 Spanish and Chinese co-production drama film written and directed by Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi. The film represents one of the rare independent film collaborations between Spain and China, together with the previous film from the directors, Desire Street. The film is based in a true story that happened to a close friend of the directors and it was shot in Chengdu, China, using the local dialect of the region, the Sichuanese Mandarin.

Production

Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal is the first film shot in China by the directors, after their previous experiences in Los Angeles and South Africa. The principal photography took place in the Summer 2012 and the post-production was completed in 2013.

The film was shot in real locations in Chengdu and surrounding areas, such as: Chengdu City Center, the more traditional urban areas and mountain restaurants of the Sichuan region, the forest at Qing Chen mountain as well as different roads that connect these locations.

Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal is the first part of a trilogy called Invisible Chengdu, directed by Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi, following by Floating Melon (2015) and Sunken Plum (2017). The trilogy focuses on characters that usually are kept underground and discriminated in the Chinese society, and often not well represented in the silver screen.

According to the directors, in Ni Jing: Thou Shalt not steal they "wanted to represent the different ways in which young people confront relationships in Asia. The perspective is very different for males and females, and pressure from the family is really strong. We do not try to teach or give advice on how things should to be handled; our aim is just to make people think about the nature of such issues, and whether they are right or wrong.

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