Blind Shaft

Blind Shaft
Directed byLi Yang
Written byLi Yang
Produced byLi Yang
StarringLi Yixiang
Wang Shuangbao
Wang Baoqiang
CinematographyLiu Yonghong
Edited byLi Yang
Karl Riedl
Music byZhang Yadong
Distributed byUnited States:
Kino International
Release dates
  • 12 February 2003 (2003-02-12) (Berlin)
  • 7 November 2003 (2003-11-07) (United Kingdom)
  • 4 February 2004 (2004-02-04) (United States)
Running time
92 minutes
LanguageHenanese

Blind Shaft (Chinese: 盲井; pinyin: Mángjǐng) is a 2003 film about a pair of brutal con artists operating in the illegal coal mines of present-day northern China. The film was written and directed by Li Yang (李杨), and is based on Chinese writer Liu Qingbang's short novel Shen Mu (Sacred Wood).