Gone With The Bullets

Gone With The Bullets

Drama

Set in the roaring 1920s in cosmopolitan Shanghai, the epitome of a country in absolute chaos after years of civil war. Ma Tsou-jih (Jiang Wen), a fallen aristocrat and now full-time swindler, teams up with French Concession policeman “Bruno” Hsiang Fei-t’ien (Ge You) to launder money for Wu-Seven (Wen Zhang), the notorious playboy son of the local warlord. Their scam involves the staging of an elaborate global pageant for courtesans that Ma’s lover Wanyan Ying (Shu Qi) duly wins. Everything works like a charm until, one morning after an all-night drug binge, Ma wakes up next to Wanyan’s dead body in a swamp. Now everyone wants Ma dead for a murder that he does not even remember committing, for different and selfish reasons: Hsiang, a boyhood buddy, wants him dead to advance his policing career; Teacher Ch’i (Hung Huang), his high school Latin teacher, wants him dead because she wants her smitten daughter Wu-Six (Zhou Yun) to marry into New Money instead of a fugitive; Marshal Wu (Liu Linian) wants him dead just to curry a favour with his concubines... and as for the general public, they simply want someone dead and be blamed for what is morally wrong with the country.

Cast

JIANG Wen  as  Ma Tsou-jih
Ge You  as  Hsiang Fei-t’ien
Zhou Yun  as  Wu-Six
Shu Qi  as  Wanyan Ying

Crew

Director JIANG Wen

Awards & Nominations

The 65th Berlin International Film Festival 2015

  • In Competition

The 52nd Golden Horse Awards 2015

  • Nominated
    Best Visual Effects
    Rick Sander, Christoph Zollinger
  • Nominated
    Best Art Direction 
    Liu Qing
  • Nominated
    Best Makeup & Costume Design
    William Chang Suk Ping

The 9th Asian Film Awards 2015

  • Won
    Best Production Design
    Liu Qing
  • Won
    Best Visual Effects
    Rick Sander, Christoph Zollinger
  • Won
    Best Costume Design
    William Chang Suk Ping
  • Nominated
    Best Composer
    Zhang Yilin, Joe Hisaishi, Dou Peng, George Acogny, Shu Nan

The 16th HuaDing Awards 2015

  • Nominated
    Best Director
    Jiang Wan

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