Big Shot's Funeral

Big Shot's Funeral

2001 · 100 min · ZH · 6.3 (41 votes)
Dir. Feng Xiaogang · Starring Ge You, Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam, Donald Sutherland, Ying Da, Paul Mazursky, Zhang Hanyu · Music San Bao
Comedy

Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, studio boss sells the sagging picture to a Japanese media company. But YoYo is determined to upstage the whole production by granting the director's wish to have a grand "comedy funeral". To raise the money for it, he auctions off advertising and sponsorships for the funeral to companies around the world. But wait...is Don getting better?

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A darkly funny, satirical look at the absurdity of show business and mortality. It's a cynical yet oddly poignant ride through the machinations of media, money, and making a spectacle out of life and death.

darkly comedicsatiricalabsurdistbittersweetsteadysatireblack comedyinternational cinemamortalityshowbizcapitalismabsurdity
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