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Mood:
- HumorousOffbeat
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Plot:
- VengeanceFall in LoveSocial DifferencesRivalrySocietyLove TriangleInjusticeLove and Romance
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Genres:
- ComedyForeignFake DocumentaryRomance
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- AsiaChina
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Humor:
- Dark Humor
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Style:
- Martial Arts
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealisticFast
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You hua hao hao shuo, 1997
Mandarin
Hong Kong, China
Profile of You hua hao hao shuo
The mood of You hua hao hao shuo is humorous and offbeat. The plot centers around social differences, falling in love, and vengeance. It features dark humor. You hua hao hao shuo is a foreign, comedy, and romance movie. Stylistically, it is a fake documentary and features martial arts. In approach, it is realistic. The pacing of You hua hao hao shuo is fast. The setting is China. It happens in the 1990s. You hua hao hao shuo is based on a book.
Summary of You hua hao hao shuo
Utilizing a hand-held camera to create a frantic, off-balance effect that is radically different from the techniques with which he made his films best known to Western audiences Raise the Red Lantern and Ju Dou, Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou has made a fast-paced modern comedy that serves as an allegory for the state of China in the late 1990s. The story's protagonist is Xiao Shuai, a bookseller who falls in love with the seductive, free-spirited An Hong. To learn her address, Xiao follows her, but An spurns his advances. He refuses to give up; eventually she caves in and invites him to her home for some quick love. Unfortunately they start, but are interrupted at a crucial moment. Later Xiao is accosted by the burly henchmen of An's new lover, a sleazy nightclub owner. They are beating him like an old rug when Lao Zhang, an old researcher, intervenes. During the scuffle, his prized laptop computer is smashed and later, he demands that Xiao replace it. But Xiao cares nothing for the destroyed laptop; he only wants revenge upon his attackers. Together he and Lao arrange to meet the villains in their club for a showdown.
Details
| Language: | Mandarin |
| Country: | Hong Kong, China |
| Release date: | 26 July 1998 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
Cast and Crew
as Policeman
as Bookseller
as Bar Boss
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