“Richly metaphorical yet bracingly naturalistic, UNKNOWN PLEASURES has the immediacy of an early edition headline.”
—Reverse Shot

“This is a mysterious and elusive movie which gestures at the emptiness in the lives of the dispossessed young in China, and everywhere else. But its strains of eroticism and black humour echo and eddy in the mind long after the closing credits.”
—The Guardian

Friends and street kids Bin Bin (Zhao Weiwei) and Xiao Ji (Wu Qiong), members of the “birth control generation,” idolize Quentin Tarantino and find escape in karaoke bars, clinging to their dreams until a chance encounter with Qiao Qiao (Zhao Tao) and her thug boyfriend shatters their routine and sends them into the unknown. A look at a new China, shot entirely on digital video.