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Also known as
  
I am a Boss

Simplified
  
我是老板

Written by
  
Gong Xiangdong

Traditional
  
我是老闆

Mandarin
  
Wǒ Shì Lǎobǎn

Created by
  
Zheng Xiaolong Li Xiaoming

I'm a Boss is a 2009 Chinese television comedy-drama directed by Zheng Xiaolong, starring Jiang Wu as an idiosyncratic and Quixotic mid-aged Ma Yiming who, forced to leave his government career, enters the business world as an entrepreneur. Ma Yiming is a likable character, selfless, reliable, studious, hard-working, rigidly principled and full of righteousness, yet extremely unsuccessful; his often hilarious misfortunes highlighting the disconnect between the Communist-Party-propagated ideal and the capitalistic reality in modern Chinese society.

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Broadcast

The show was first broadcast in May 2009 on Beijing Television. In Taiwan, it was shown on Videoland Max-TV in March 2010.

Cast and characters

  • Jiang Wu as Ma Yiming, the protagonist
  • Zhang Heng as Shi Hong, a nurse and Ma Yiming's wife
  • Wang Lei as Shi Jun, Shi Hong's jobless brother, though he claims he owns a million-dollar company
  • Wang Jingsong as Ma Yiping, a taxicab driver and Ma Yiming's brother
  • Wang Yajie as Li Qinqin, a landlady
  • Niu Piao as Feng Zhiyuan, a businessman
  • Xu Zheng as Xu Tianlai, a businessman
  • Li Jingjing as Bai Lihua, a businesswoman
  • Fu Miao as Chen Xi, a gold-digging secretary
  • Li Xiaomeng as Ranran, a young bartender
  • Liu Yiwei as a businessman
  • Fang Zige as Ma Yiming's superior

    • Awards and nominations

    Xu Zheng was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 4th Huading Awards.

    References

    I'm a Boss Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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