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Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop, A

After the adulterous wife (Ni Yan) of an abusive noodle shop owner (Dahong Ni) buys a gun from a traveling Persian trader (Julien Gaudfroy) with plans to kill her spouse while the devoted employees (Xiao Shenyang, Cheng Ye, and Mao Mao) safeguard her secret and her husband learns about her affair with a kindhearted employee (Xiao Shen-Yang) in this hilarious, dark, highly entertaining, 2009 comedy, which is filled with striking cinematography and based on the 1984 thriller Blood Simple, the hasty, revengeful plan backfires when the husband hire a greedy Chinese cop (Benshan Zhao) to kill his wife in feudal China.
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