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Back to the Wharf
Directed by
Li Xiaofeng
2023
1h 58m
Crime
,
Drama
,
and more
6.1
60%
5.6
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An escaped convict for negligent homicide returned to hometown after 15 years, only to be haunted by his past, and got mixed up in a scheme involving the daughter of his victim.
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Cast of Back to the Wharf
Zhang Yu
Song Hao
Song Jia
Pan Xiaoshuang
Wang Yanhui
Song Jianhui
Lee Hong-Chi
Li Tang
Deng Enxi
Wan Xiaoning
Li Xiaofeng
Director / Writer
Yu Xin
Writer
Wang Yu
Co-Producer
Piao Songri
Director Of Photography
Wen Zi
Original Music Composer
Zheng Zhihao
Co-Executive Producer
Zhu Weijie
Co-Executive Producer
Back to the Wharf Ratings & Reviews
Loud and Clear Reviews
William Stottor
Back to the Wharf's basic premise is intriguing and potentially powerful, but it becomes cluttered with odd directorial, design, and writing choices.
Beyond the Cinerama Dome
Tina Kakadelis
All of Back to the Wharf's major plot points rely on a shared history between the two lead characters. There should be unbearable tension between Li Tang and Song Hao, but that's not the case and the film suffers for that.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
More than just a satisfying slab of neo-noir but a peel-back-the-layers statement on the human tolls of growth in China.
New York Times
Brandon Yu
Turns a crime soap opera into an allegory about the moral costs of rapacious expansion - to middling effect.
TheArtsStl
Sarah Boslaugh
... a film noir setup if ever there was one-an essentially good person, victimized by outside forces, puts a foot wrong once and the course of their life is irrevocably altered for the worse.
Film Threat
Bradley Gibson
For Western audiences, Back to the Wharf is an engaging glimpse of daily life at the intersection of Chinese family culture and government corruption.
Cinema Crazed
Emilie Black
...a masterful film filled with despair, emotions, and a journey that takes the viewer along for better or for worst.
In Review Online
Daniel Gorman
Xiaofeng doesn't seem to have much of a knack for this kind of long-form storytelling, where balancing plot with characters is of the utmost importance.
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