
Feature film — 2009
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (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. 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.
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A high-signal pick with 90 votes.
Beijing New Picture Film Co. Ltd. / Film Partner International
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Director: Zhang Yimou
On screen
Cast & crew

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
