TY  - BOOK
AU  - Xiaogang Feng
AU  - Xiaogang Feng
AU  - Xiaoming Li
AU  - Donald Sutherland
AU  - Rosamund Kwan
AU  - Paul Mazursky
TI  - Da Wan: Big Shot's Funeral
AV  - PN1997 .D309 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - China, Hong Kong
PB  - China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Columbia Pictures
N1  - <based on, contains the following, public viewing rights>
N2  - From case cover:
World famous film director Don Tyler is surrounded by hundreds of costumed extras in China's fantastic Forbidden City when a creative drought hits and he has no idea where to the camera. Tossed off the picture by his studio boss, Tyler's depression is only relieved by his unlikely friendship with down-on-his-luck cameraman YoYo.
Knowing he's not well, Tyler asks his friend to plan a "comedy funeral" for him where people leave feeling happy, as they do at Chinese funerals of the elderly. When Tyler eventually falls into a coma, YoYo begins the task of granting Tyler's last wish.
However, when the costs of his spectacular funeral spin wildly out of control, can YoYo hold it all together by selling prime ad space at this unique event to be televised around the world? And more importantly for YoYo, can he convince Tyler's lovely assistant Lucy that he isn't just selling Tyler out to the highest bidder?
That's the world of BIG SHOT'S FUNERAL: a zany, satiric comedy capturing the dizzy excitement and whirlwind change of modern-day China.


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