Synopsis
Dying to Survive (我不是药神, 2018) is a Chinese drama you can watch online on iFILM. Cheng Yong runs a failing little shop selling health tonics until a leukemia patient walks in with a request that rewrites his life.
The cancer drug his customers need costs a fortune in China. Its Indian generic costs almost nothing. So Cheng Yong starts smuggling the cheap version across the border, and a small-time hustler becomes the man hundreds of dying people call their god of medicine. Director Wen Muye and lead actor Xu Zheng resist turning him into a saint — greed comes first, conscience comes later, once real faces are attached to every shipment from Mumbai.
What lands hardest is that this grew out of a true case, so the comedy keeps colliding with an impossible choice between the law and a life. The film became a box-office phenomenon at home and pushed China's drug-pricing debate into the open. Stream Dying to Survive (2018) online on iFILM.
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