A Touch of Sin

Director: Jia Zhangke

2013 / 130min / DCP

Jia’s jarringly to-the-moment film, based on scandalous stories from around Mainland China circulated via Weibo posts, focuses on four individuals in four provinces pushed towards violence by rampant injustice, and features a small but piquant role for Wang in the film’s third segment as a particularly boorish and arrogant customer at the Nightcomer Sauna, seen pummeling fellow Jia regular Zhao Tao, playing an employee, with a stack of cash after being told that her services aren’t for sale. A howl of outrage against the injustices run rampant in money-mad China—and a system that denies their existence.