The Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel
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Director Guan Hu Duration Language Mandarin | 5.2/10 IMDb Genre Action, Comedy, Drama Country China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 29 March 2013 (2013-03-29) (China) Writer Run Nian Dong, Hu Guan Cast Liu Ye (The Chef), Zhang Hanyu (The Actor), Huang Bo (The Scoundrel), Liang Jing (Chef's wife), Wang Xun (Chief detective), Chie Tanaka (Second Lieutenant Sakura Yanagida)Similar movies Red Cliff , The Monkey King | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Four Chinese agents capture a Japanese scientist during the second Sino-Japanese War to retrieve the cure for a cholera outbreak.
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The Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel is a 2013 Chinese comedy film directed by Guan Hu, starring Liu Ye, Zhang Hanyu and Huang Bo. The film is meant to be "mass entertainment", in the words of Guan, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film is set in 1942, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Much of the plot revolves around the fates of two Japanese scientists who are captured in Beiping (Beijing) by the three titular characters, who have trouble deciding what to do with them.
During Second Sino-Japanese War, China suffered from cholera outbreak because Japanese uses it as an biological weapon. Four Chinese agents captures a Japanese scientist and his bodyguard and interrogate them by Chinese opera in order to get the vaccine formula. Written by tom0902000
Plot
The film is set in China in the 1940s during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Armys Unit 731 conducts experiments on biological weapons by releasing cholera in Beiping, but that inadvertently hinders their advance because their troops are at risk of being infected as well. They block off all access to the city and secretly summon two scientists to handle the situation. The virus spreads outside the city while the people inside the city suffer from hunger.
A scoundrel encounters the two scientists inside Beiping, without knowing who they are, and attempts to rob them. After a short chase through the streets, the scoundrel captures them and brings them to a Japanese restaurant owned by a Chinese chef. An opera actor also lives in the restaurant. The three men are unable to decide what to do with the scientists. The chef wants to release the captives because he is afraid of getting into trouble. The scoundrel wants to get out of the difficult situation so he lies that he is from the Chinese Eighth Route Army. The actor wants to kill the scientists and the scoundrel, because he feels that they would offend the Chinese army if they release the scientists and they would offend the Japanese military if they release the scoundrel.
Just when the three men brandish their weapons at each other and are locked in a stalemate, the chefs wife rummages through the scientists belongings, finds a canister of cholera, and realises that the scientists are actually sent by Unit 731 to deal with the virus. At this point, the three men come to terms with each other and agree to cooperate and share the gains from selling the canister of cholera. The scoundrel and actor use various methods to interrogate the scientists and gather more information. The chef, who serves as their translator, secretly helps the two scientists.
Similar Movies
Huang Bo appears in The Chef - the Actor - the Scoundrel and Cow. Liu Ye appears in The Chef - the Actor - the Scoundrel and City of Life and Death. Lovers Grief over the Yellow River (1999). Zhang Hanyu appears in The Chef - the Actor - the Scoundrel and The Message. Huang Bo appears in The Chef - the Actor - the Scoundrel and Crazy Racer.
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References
The Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel WikipediaThe Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel IMDb The Chef, the Actor, the Scoundrel themoviedb.org