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A Simple Noodle Story ( simplified Chinese: 三枪拍案惊奇; traditional Chinese: 三槍拍案驚奇; pinyin: Sānqiāng Pāi'àn Jīngqí ), internationally A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop. [3] is a 2009 film directed by Zhang Yimou. Described as a cross between screwball comedy and thriller, [4] the film stars Sun Honglei and Ni Dahong in ...
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop: Directed by Yimou Zhang. With Honglei Sun, Shenyang Xiao, Ni Yan, Dahong Ni. The owner of a Chinese noodle shop's scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.
- DICK STEEL
- 2 min
- Yimou Zhang
Shot in oversaturated, wide-angle Wacky-Scope, "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop" is surely a leading contender for the most pictorially stunning blood-soaked burlesque comedy since Roman Polanski's "The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me But Your Teeth Are in My Neck/Dance of the Vampires".
Dec 10, 2009 · Plot. Set in a Chinese noodle shop in a sand dune-specked desert, the owner of the noodle shop’s seemingly simple plan to murder his adulterous wife and her lover quickly spins out of control after the introduction of a gun into the lives of characters more accustomed to knives and swords.
Sep 2, 2010 · By. Mark Jenkins. Canoodling With Cause: The much-abused wife (Yan Ni) of a wealthy noodle-shop owner buys a gun, telling her lover that her husband must die for them to be happy. Bai...
Dec 11, 2009 · 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.
Aug 30, 2010 · Broad flailing and mugging dominates the setup, in which a facial hair-overloaded Persian in ancient rural China sells the abused wife (Yan Ni) of noodle shop owner Wang (Ni Dahong) a newfangled Western pistol.