Big Shot's Funeral

Big Shot's Funeral

100 mins | Comedy | Dec. 21, 2001

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?

Big Shot's Funeral

100 mins | Comedy | Dec. 21, 2001

Big Shot's Funeral
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?
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Columbia Pictures, China Film Group Corporation, Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film Investment
Original title 大腕
Directors Feng Xiaogang
Writers Feng Xiaogang, Shi Kang, Xiaoming Li

Cast

Ge You

as YoYo

Rosamund Kwan

as Lucy

Ying Da

as Louis Wang

Paul Mazursky

as Studio boss

Fu Biao

as