two professional thieves who find their consciences challenged. Long partners in love and crime, the two thieves meet a country farmer named Xa Gen (Wang Baoqiang) in a train station. The naive, honest Xa Gen is convinced that he lives in a "world without thieves", but the very train he's boarding is proof of the contrary! Besides Wang Bo and Wang Li, legendary thief Uncle Bill (Ge Yu of My Dog, Cala! and Big Shot's Funeral) is on board, and he and his men are ready to take Xa Gen's savings for themselves. Uncle Bill is also determined to outwit Wang Bo - and he just might have his chance! When Wang Li decides to protect Xa Gen from Uncle Bill's men, Wang Bo finds himself caught in the middle. Will he help Wang Li and oppose Uncle Bill? Or does he have something else up his sleeve? Wang Bo (Andy Lau) and Wang Li (Rene Liu) should have made the perfect Bonnie and Clyde: the former a seasoned con amn and master pickpocket from Hong Kong, the latter a frifter femme fatale from Taiwan. Partners in crime and passion, the couple swindle their way across China, until one fine day Li suddenly decides to call it quits, both to her egregious lifestyle and to her entanglement with Bo. It is at this crossroad in their lives and relationships that they run into Fu Gen in a train station, an encounter that will alter their fate forever.
China's mainland director Feng Xiaogang's latest "New Year" movie A World Without Thieves.
The leading stars Andy Lau, Rene Liu, Ge You and Li Bingbing reflected the theme of the movie by emerging from a "train" called A World Without Thieves.
The story unfolds during a train ride to western China. It's about two thieves who become conscience stricken when they meet an honest farmer who dreams of "a world without thieves". A World Without Thieves is a new style movie for Feng Xiaogang. It moves away from his usual black humor, grotesque and sometimes bizarre depictions of reality. This new film carries a more sentimental and idealistic story. Feng Xiaogang said, "This is a fresh try. Film producers and audiences will all get tired if we keep making films in the same way. It is something like a narcotic. Audiences may fulfill their dreams watching a movie. If audiences can accept new styles, it gives us more chances to make different movies."
China's mainland director Feng Xiaogang's latest "New Year" movie A World Without Thieves.
The leading stars Andy Lau, Rene Liu, Ge You and Li Bingbing reflected the theme of the movie by emerging from a "train" called A World Without Thieves.
The story unfolds during a train ride to western China. It's about two thieves who become conscience stricken when they meet an honest farmer who dreams of "a world without thieves". A World Without Thieves is a new style movie for Feng Xiaogang. It moves away from his usual black humor, grotesque and sometimes bizarre depictions of reality. This new film carries a more sentimental and idealistic story. Feng Xiaogang said, "This is a fresh try. Film producers and audiences will all get tired if we keep making films in the same way. It is something like a narcotic. Audiences may fulfill their dreams watching a movie. If audiences can accept new styles, it gives us more chances to make different movies."