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Blind Shaft

Blind Shaft

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2003
1h 32m
7.5(70 votes)
Drama
Crime

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Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.

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