Big Shot's Funeral

Big Shot's Funeral
Simplified Chinese大腕
Hanyu PinyinDàwàn
Directed byFeng Xiaogang
Written byLi Xiaoming
Shi Kang
Feng Xiaogang
Produced byYang Buting
Wang Zhongjun
Tong Gang
Wang Zhonglei
He Ping
StarringGe You
Rosamund Kwan
Donald Sutherland
CinematographyZhang Li
Edited byZhou Ying
Music bySan Bao, Faye Wong
Production
companies
Distributed byColumbia TriStar Film Distributors International
Release date
  • 21 December 2001 (2001-12-21)
Running time
100 minutes
LanguagesMandarin
English
Budget$3.3 million

Big Shot's Funeral (Chinese: 大腕; pinyin: Dàwàn; lit. 'Big Wrist', Mandarin colloquialism for "big shot") is a 2001 Chinese black comedy film directed by Feng Xiaogang. It was written by Feng, Li Xiaoming and Shi Kang. The black comedy starred Ge You, Rosamund Kwan and Donald Sutherland.

The film follows a temporary photographer (Ge You), who befriends a famed American film director (Sutherland) and goes to raise money for his friend's funeral after an accident during the shooting of a documentary.

Released on 21 December 2001 as a Chinese New Year film, the film is produced by Huayi Brothers Advertising, Taihe Films, and Columbia Pictures. It marked the fourth collaboration between director Feng Xiaogang and actor Ge You. The film received mixed reviews and modest box office performance, and won the Best Feature Film Award at China's 25th Hundred Flowers Awards in 2002, and actor Ge You won the Best Actor Award.

  1. ^ a b c "Big Shot's Funeral (2001)". Hong Kong Movie Database. Retrieved 1 June 2021.