Who's doing the censoring, exactly?

The fate of the new movie Curiosity Kills the Cat (好奇害死猫) was in limbo recently after negatives were confiscated when it was discovered that some of the film's sex scenes may have stepped over the line.

Par for the course in Chinese media regulation, right? Except that instead of the watchdogs at SARFT laying down the law, it was one Mr. Zhao, an employee at the Beijing Film Developing and Printing & Video Laboratory, who refused to print the film or return the negatives.