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7.3/10   1,683 votes
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Director:
Xiaogang Feng
Writer:
Xiaogang Feng (writer)
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Release Date:
9 December 2004 (China) more
Genre:
Action | Crime | Drama more
Plot:
A con-team couple (Andy Lau & Rene Liu) head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter travelling home with his life savings challenges their fate as thieves. | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 8 nominations more
User Comments:
Beautiful film, highly recommended more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Andy Lau ... Wang Bo
Rene Liu ... Wang Li
You Ge ... Uncle Bill
Baoqiang Wang ... Sha Gen
Bingbing Li ... Xiao Ye
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Wei Fan ... Fat robber
Yuanzheng Feng ... Thin robber
Biao Fu ... General Manager Liu
Ka Tung Lam ... Four-eyes
Fan Xu ... Mrs. Liu
Yong You ... Thief Number Two
Hanyu Zhang ... Public security Han
Ping Zhong ... Policewoman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
A World Without Thieves (International: English title)
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Runtime:
113 min | China:100 min
Country:
China | Hong Kong
Language:
Mandarin
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Company:
Focus Films more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Beautiful film, highly recommended, 15 September 2007
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Author: pvernezze from China

World without Thieves (Tian Xia Wu Zei) is a film by director Feng Xiaogang. It involves a romantically involved pair of thieves. As the film begins they are extorting money from a rich man they have filmed trying to seduce the woman. Soon after this, the woman decides she has had enough of this kind of life and wants a normal existence. Her partner in crime, however, has no intention of quitting the business. She stops at a Buddhist temple to pray and there is befriended by a worker on the temple. The man, whose friends call him Dumbo, is returning home with his five years wages from working on the temple, 60, 000 RMB. Although his friends tell him to wire the money home and warn him about thieves he insists he is fine taking the money on the train with him and that they are too distrustful of people. In an attempt to prove to his friends that there are no thieves on the train, the young man has announces to the entire train that he has the money and that any thieves should show themselves. When they don't, Dumbo says, "see,there are no thieves here." On the train, he hooks up with the thieving couple, and the woman makes it her mission to try to protect the gullible young man from those who would steal the money, in particular from a gang of thieves on the train, and perhaps from her own partner. Like Bu Jian, Bu San, this film is not a light comedy, although it seems to start out as such. Instead, it is a serious and emotionally taxing film that can be alternatively thought provoking and hilarious, with the contrast between the gullibility of the young man and the sophistication of the world weary thieves providing the central moral focus Feng is a major Chinese writer/director. He traditionally releases movies around the Chinese New Year. A beautiful movie, highly recommended.

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