A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

2009 · 95 min · ★ 4.9 · Comedy, Drama, Thriller

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.

Directed by Zhang Yimou · Written by Xu Zhengchao

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Sun Honglei Zhang
Xiao Shenyang Li
Yan Ni Wang's wife
Ni Dahong Wang
Cheng Ye Zhao
Nikita Mao Linlin Chen
Zhao Benshan Patrol Team Commander
Julien Gaudfroy Persian Merchant
Wei Na Persian Woman
Wang Sisi Female Prisoner
Li Wenting Female Prisoner
Cheng Ran Male Prisoner

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