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Director:
Writers:
Xiaogang Feng (writer)
Xiaoming Li (writer)
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Release Date:
21 December 2001 (China) more
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Plot:
Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
5 wins & 1 nomination more
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As usual great satire comes without belly aches more (35 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
You Ge ... YoYo
Rosamund Kwan ... Lucy

Donald Sutherland ... Tyler
Da Ying ... Louis Wang

Paul Mazursky ... Studio boss
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Christopher Barden ... Peter
Chengru Li
Ada Shen ... Lucy (voice)
Hanyu Zhang
Baoqiang Wang ... Extra in the Forbidden city (uncredited)
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Directed by
Xiaogang Feng 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Xiaogang Feng  writer
Xiaoming Li  writer
Kang Shi  writer

Produced by
Paul Duke .... associate producer
Ping He .... executive producer
Gang Tong .... executive producer
Zhongjun Wang .... producer
Zhonglei Wang .... producer
Buting Yang .... producer
 
Original Music by
Bao San 
 
Cinematography by
Li Zhang 
 
Film Editing by
Ying Zhou 
 
Production Design by
Xingang Liu 
 
Costume Design by
Xiaoli Duan 
 
Production Management
Guoqiang Lu .... unit production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Yun Lao .... first assistant director
 
Sound Department
Glenn Newnham .... sound editor
Paul Pirola .... sound re-recording mixer
Danrong Wang .... production sound mixer
 
Visual Effects by
Ineke Majoor .... visual effects producer
Peter Webb .... visual effects
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Rafael Winer .... still photographer: China
 
Other crew
Nina Huang Fan .... on-set translator
Peggy Lee .... production controller
Ada Shen .... voice double: "Lucy"
Maggie Tang .... production assistant (as Xiaobin Tang)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Big Shot's Funeral
Dai yuen (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
Happy Funeral
The Funeral of the Famous Star
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MPAA:
Rated PG for thematic elements, language and brief partial nudity.
Runtime:
100 min
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4 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
As usual great satire comes without belly aches, 14 March 2003
10/10
Author: Brainpiercing from Stuttgart Germany

This film won't give you belly aches, but it is still thoroughly amusing. The acting is great on the most part, not overdone, simple and to the point. Kwan is the only character to do some more exaggerated acting, the others have no need for it.

The nice thing about this movie is that it seems to hover lightly over serious matters, and only wants to point out some of the insanity in modern day business. It actually comes off as not seeming very critical, you may come to your own conclusions. The satire remains friendly, the criticism is presented without the moral pointers. You've got the love the moment when Yo Yo snaps out one of the glasses from the shades the body is to wear, and puts a contact lens on the puppet's eye.

I won't dwell on the witty language, my grasp of Chinese is way too poor for that, trust the Chinese comments on that. I must say that while Chinese comedy is quickly approaching a standard of western stupidity (Marry a Rich Man, Chinese Odissey, etc.) this film stands out as witty and intelligent, and in no way deserves the poor scores it has received here.

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