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JUDGE

透析

By Jie LIU

Drama - Completed 2009

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- CHINA
- Languages
- CHINESE
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Jie LIU
- Synopsis
- In a small northern Chinese city in 1997, Judge Tian privately struggles with the loss of his daughter, killed by a stolen car in a hit-and-run accident. On the bench he encounters Qiuwu, a mechanic accused of stealing two cars. Perhaps influenced by his emotional state, the outwardly impassive judge imposes an almost-obsolete criminal law on Qiuwu that sentences him to death for his crime. Desperate to mitigate his sentence, Qiuwu agrees to donate his kidney to a rich businessman dying of a terminal illness, hoping at the very least that his impoverished family may profit from his demise.