Bangkok--Jan 26--Total Quality PR
Premiering 10 February, Wednesday
2.30pm
Only at AXN (UBC 19)
When a small-town policeman’s gun goes missing, his desperate search for it starts uncovering a web of conspiracy and deceit that plunges him into the midst of a murder.
It’s the morning after a night of drunken revelry, and small-town policeman Ma Shan awakes to discover that his gun is missing.
In a country where guns are rare and the penalty for officials losing their guns is jail-time, Ma Shan immediately embarks on a frantic search for the weapon. As suspect after suspect emerges, he begins to be convinced that the loss of the gun is far from accidental. Furthermore, things are not all they seemed to be in his town. Things that he distinctly remembers turn out untrue, and people whom he thought had long disappeared suddenly reappear.
Things take a more sinister turn when an old flame turns up dead in town, apparently shot with a bullet from his missing gun. Ma Shan is arrested for murder but in a twist of events, manages to convince his accusers that he wasn’t the murderer. Determined to get to the bottom of this, he begins to lay a trap for the killer — a trap that will prove to be just as dangerous for him as it is for the murderer.
This sinister, twisted tale stars one of China’s most popular actors, Jiang Wen.
Jiang Wen is widely regarded as the most popular male actor in Mainland China, perhaps best known for his starring role opposite Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum. A highly-regarded director, his directorial effort, Devils on the Doorstep, took the Grand Prix at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. Jiang also wrote and directed In the Heat of the Sun, which went on to clinch 6 Golden Horse awards in Taiwan. It was cited by Richard Corliss in Time as the best film of 1995.
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