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A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought to kill her husband. But Wang is watching their every move. He bribes patrol officer Zhang to murder the illicit couple. It seems like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel, bloody but satisfying end or so he thinks. The equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own. As the plot twists, more blood will flow, and ever greater violence will erupt.
2009 · Directed by Zhang Yimou · 95 min · Comedy · Drama · Thriller · 8 frames
Crew
- Screenplay: Xu Zhengchao, Shi Jianquan
- Cinematography: Zhao Xiaoding
- Edited by: Meng Peicong
- Music: Zhao Lin
- Production design: Han Zhong
- Produced by: Zhang Weiping, Bill Kong, Gu Hao
Cast
- Sun Honglei as Zhang
- Xiao Shenyang as Li
- Yan Ni as Wang's wife
- Ni Dahong as Wang
- Cheng Ye as Zhao
- Nikita Mao Linlin as Chen
- Zhao Benshan as Patrol Team Commander
- Julien Gaudfroy as Persian Merchant
- Wei Na as Persian Woman
- Wang Sisi as Female Prisoner
Production
- Country: China
- Language: Mandarin
- Studios: Beijing New Picture Film Co. Ltd., Film Partner International
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