BLIND SHAFT (Mang jing)

BLIND SHAFT tells the story of two itinerant miners who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop questionable morals in order to survive. In the dark caves of one of the many illegal Chinese coal mines, Song and Tang murder a co-worker whom they have convinced to pose as Tang's brother. By forcing the mine's collapse upon their deceased colleague, and thereby making his death seem accidental, Tang and Song use their colleague's death to extort money from the mine's management. Pressured to cover up an accident which they believe to be the result of improper working conditions, the mine's owners give in to the two workers' blackmailing." Even after getting paid off, the greedy men begin searching for another 'relative' to kill in a different company's mine 'accident.' Their greed is however about to take an unexpected turn. [Kino description]