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Best Chinese Movies You Should Watch (July Edition)
2014-07-31

3. Sophie's Revenge (非常完美)

Approximately one month before her wedding to handsome doctor Jeff, pretty cartoonist Sophie (Zhang Ziyi) finds herself kicked to the curb and replaced by glamorous actress Joanna (Fan Bingbing). Devastated, Sophie comes up with a master plan to win Jeff back using "scientific methods," and walk down the aisle on schedule. To ensure her mission is a success she recruits Taiwanese photographer Gordon (Peter Ho) to be her right hand man.



2. A World Without Thieves (天下无贼)

Sha Gen (Wang Baoqiao), a naive young man who has just finished his job as construction worker in Tibet, was returning home to get married. Refusing to believe that thieves exist in the world, Sha Gen insists on carrying his five years of savings worth 60,000 RMB ($7,200 USD), with him rather than use remittance. He attracted the attention of Wang Bo (Andy Lau) and Wang Li (Rene Liu), a couple of highly skilled professional thieves. Wang Bo wants to steal the money as a last hit to end their career, but Wang Li, pregnant with their child and moved by Sha Gen's innocence, decides to protect the boy.



1. Lost on Journey (人在囧途)

This film is a realistic potrayal of Chinese society during the Spring Festival with a dose of romance comedy. Li Chenggong (Xu Zheng) is a wealthy businessman who treats his employees poorly and has a secret mistress. Although his mistress wants him to spend Chinese New Year with her in Shijiazhuang, Li feels obligated to return to his hometown Changsha to celebrate Chinese New Year with his wife, daughter, and mother. Apart from his flight was mistakenly booked in economy class, everything seems to go according to plan, until he met Niu Geng (Wang Baoqiang), a naive and gullible migrant worker who is also setting out to Changsha to claim his defaulted wages as a milk extraction technician. The duo experiences a seemingly never-ending streak of bad luck as they try to make their way to Changsha amidst the rush of the largest human migration crowds in today's mankind society.

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