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In the lawless land that is rural China in the 1920s, legendary bandit "Pocky" Zhang (Jiang Wen) and his gang stage a train robbery. They are quite unhappy to discover that instead of silver, the only thing left on the train is the con man, Tang (Ge You). Desperate, Tang explains that he’s on his way to Goose Town, where he's bought himself a governorship. If allowed to live, he will help Zhang assume the governorship in his place - where Zhang can make more money in one month as a corrupt politician than he can in a year's worth of train robberies. With Tang as his prisoner/counselor, off they go.
But neither realizes that Goose Town is already under the iron rule of the wealthy Master Huang (Chow Yun Fat, The Killer, Hard Boiled), whose charming exterior conceals a ruthless, conniving crime lord. As Zhang begins to see how badly Huang oppresses the citizens of Goose Town, he decides to do something about it, and Huang quickly senses a major threat to his empire. Thus begins an escalating series of hyper-violent (and hilarious) mind games between the bandit and the crime lord, while the devious Tang tries to play both sides until he can exit the situation - preferably with a profit. The stakes quickly rise to ludicrous proportions in this masterfully vicious, pitch-black action-comedy (China's highest grossing film of all time), and you’ll be laughing the entire time as double- and triple-crosses, razor-sharp wordplay, and hundreds of thousands of bullets explode across the screen.
Original Release
12/16/2010
US Release
03/02/2012
Cast
Name | Character |
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Chow Yun-Fat | Master Huang / Huang Silang |
You Ge | Ma Bangde |
Wen Jiang | Pocky Zhang |
Carina Lau | Mrs. Ma / Magistrate's wife |
Jun Hu | Fake Pocky / Fake Zhang Mazi |
Pu Miao | Shanxi MIstress / Mabond's ex-wife |
Wu Jiang | Master Wu |
Fan Liao | Three |
Yun Zhou | Flora / Sister Hua |
Kun Chen | Hu Wan / Huwan |
Directors
Writers
Xiao Wei, Junli Guo, Wen Jiang, Bukong Li, Shitu Ma, Ping Shu, Sujin Zhu
Cast
Name | Character |
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Chow Yun-Fat | Master Huang / Huang Silang |
You Ge | Ma Bangde |
Wen Jiang | Pocky Zhang |
Carina Lau | Mrs. Ma / Magistrate's wife |
Jun Hu | Fake Pocky / Fake Zhang Mazi |
Pu Miao | Shanxi MIstress / Mabond's ex-wife |
Wu Jiang | Master Wu |
Fan Liao | Three |
Yun Zhou | Flora / Sister Hua |
Kun Chen | Hu Wan / Huwan |
Mo Zhang | Six / The Six |
Bing Bai | Daiyu Qingwen |
Lei Chen | Husband |
Yiheng Du | Four |
Xiaogang Feng | Counselor Tang / Master Tang |
Ming Hu | Sun Shouyi, powder trader |
Jing Li | Five / The Five |
Lu Yao | Hu Qian |
Marco Ma | Ba Sui |
Yu Sha | Goose man |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ping Dong | Executive Producer |
Sanping Han | Executive Producer |
Zhou Li | Executive Producer |
He Shiping | Executive Producer |
Albert Yeung | Executive Producer |
Marco Ma | Executive Producer |
Albert Lee | Producer |
Marco Ma | Producer |
Barbie Tung | Producer |
Hongbo Yin | Producer |
Haicheng Zhao | Producer |
Wen Jiang | Producer |
Homber Yin | Producer |