Jia fang yi fang

Too bad the critics who seem to act as gatekeepers for Chinese movies haven't approved this. Maybe because it's a comedy. The story is somewhat similar to Mi Jiashan's Wan zhu (1988), and even shares a star (Ge You) with that movie, but it's also much better done.

Funny and yet full of wisdom. There are 7 stories in the movie. Each story is about a personal wish which may looks simple or even irrelevant. But actually there is some deeper meaning in it and it is actually quite real. I wish more people can seriously look at the last story. It has a warm ending. The world can be a better place. A much better place.

I like this film very much. I know it's difficult for a non-Chinese. It's composed of 7 parts. The film is about an fictional company consisting of 4 young men helping ordinary people achieve their impossible dreams. A bookshop owner who dreams of becoming Batton, a cook who wants to keep secrets, a man who wants to know what it feels like to be treated by others in a bad way, a star who desires an ordinary life, a young man who needs love desperately, a rich man who wants to experience poverty and a middle-aged man who needs a new flat to satisfy his dying wife....... Anyway the film has a warm ending. The film is directed by feng xiaogang and starred by gou you and liu bei.

This is really funny is you can understand all the Chinese 60's communism puns. Personally I think that the script was nicely written, and it actually has a quite touching theme. And again, it's really really really funny, one of the funniest movie I've ever seen.

Tl:dr this classic Chinese 1990's comic is still highly entertaining for modern audiences. The unique story is timeless, and since it was a high value production when released it doesn't feel dated.

The comedic story is about a small group of friends who run a company that lets other people have their dramatic fantasies come true, generally involving improvised historic setpieces and improvised solutions by the characters.

People unfamiliar with mainland Chinese cinema will likely not know this movie, even though it was a huge success and still considered a classic nowadays. It stars Ge You, who can be considered the biggest male star of his generation in China. It's one of the earlier truly popular Chinese movies from a time when most entertained was produced in Hong Kong or Taiwan.

The Chinese title "Jia Fang Yi Fang" refers to party 1 and 2 in a legal contract, which is used to set the expectations and limits in the reenactments in the movie.