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Released
2013 · FILM

A Touch of Sin

A disillusioned miner, a vengeful receptionist, a restless migrant, and a desperate factory worker each confront the limits of tolerance in a fractured China, where violence becomes the only language left to speak.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
131 min
Language
ZH
CrimeDrama

Synopsis

Four individuals in different provinces are drawn toward violent outcomes due to their distinct circumstances. An angry miner becomes enraged by corruption in his village. A migrant begins to consider the possibilities of firearm ownership. A receptionist reaches her breaking point due to an abusive client. A young factory worker moves from one job to the next.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Matthieu LaclauShot by Nelson Lik Wai YuScored by Lim Giong

Box Office

2013 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$154K

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$154K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $31K

Peak 2 theaters

Also known as

  • A Touch of Sinde
  • Tian zhu dingde
  • A Touch of Sinen
  • Un toque de violenciaes
  • Il tocco del peccatoit

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