Ridiculously Large Chinese Numbers:

兆	Zhao4	Trillion	1,000,000,000,000
京	Jing1	Ten Quadrillion	10,000,000,000,000,000
垓	Gai1	Hundred Quintillion	100,000,000,000,000,000,000

Blind Shaft: BLIND SHAFT tells the story of two itinerant miners (Song Jinming and Tang Chaoyang) who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop questionable morals in order to survive. In the dark caves of one of the many illegal Chinese coal mines, Song and Tang murder a co-worker whom they have convinced to pose as Tang's brother. By forcing the mine's collapse upon their deceased colleague, and thereby making his death seem accidental, Tang and Song use their colleague's death to extort money from the mine's management. Pressured to cover up an accident which they believe to be the result of improper working conditions, the mine's owners give in to the two workers' blackmailing. There is a relevant article in the New York Times: "Descending Into the Pit of Humanity"; and the NYT review. It will be playing at the Detroit Institute of Arts on March 16th. I plan to go. (via Asian Labor News)