The Bullet Vanishes
| The Bullet Vanishes | |
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| Traditional | 消失的子彈 |
| Simplified | 消失的子弹 |
| Mandarin | Xiāo Shī Dè Zǐ Dàn |
| Cantonese | Siu1 Sat1 Di1 Zi2 Daan6 |
| Directed by | Lo Chi-leung |
| Produced by |
Derek Yee Mandy Law Zhang Zhao Albert Lee Shan Dongbing Catherine Hun |
| Written by | Lo Chi-leung Yeung Sin-ling |
| Story by | Yeung Sin-ling |
| Starring |
Nicholas Tse Lau Ching-wan Yang Mi Boran Jing Wu Gang Liu Kai-chi |
| Music by |
Teddy Robin Tommy Wai |
| Cinematography | Chan Chi-ying |
| Edited by | Kong Chi-leung Ron Chan |
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| Distributed by | Emperor Motion Pictures |
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108 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong China |
| Language | Mandarin Cantonese |
| Budget | US$15.8 million |
| Box office | US$25.0 million (Worldwide) |
The Bullet Vanishes (also known as Ghost Bullets and Disappeared Bullets) is a 2012 Hong Kong-Chinese mystery film. It was written by Yeung Sin-leung and directed by Lo Chi-leung, produced by Mandy Law and Derek Yee, and starring Nicholas Tse, Lau Ching-wan, Yang Mi, Boran Jing, Wu Gang and Liu Kai-chi. The film pertains to a detective duo investigating a series of strange murders, in which the bullets used seemingly vanish (and hence the title), after the death of a factory girl accused as the perpetrator of the theft of a few bullets. Set in 1930s Tiancheng County, China, filming took place in Shanghai. Grossing US$25,280,000 in ticket sales domestically in China, The Bullet Vanishes is the eighth highest grossing Chinese film of 2012.
Ding (Liu Kai-chi), the overbearing owner of a bullet factory in Tiancheng County, intimidates his workers to keep them in line, leading to a public Russian roulette "suicide" of a female employee (Xuxu) accused of stealing a box of bullets. A curse relating to a certain "Phantom Bullet" is found written in red on the walls of the factory, though the workers are soon ordered to scrub it off. Subsequent deaths from "phantom bullets" which are never found, seemingly vanishing, suggest that the factory has really been cursed. Song Donglu (Lau Ching-wan), a newly promoted detective with a slightly eccentric personality, is summoned by Tiancheng's police chief Jin (Wu Gang) to assist Guo Zhui (Nicholas Tse), "the fastest gunman in Tiancheng", and novice policeman Xiaowu (Boran Jing) in investigating the peculiar murders.
As of 23 October 2012, on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film had received a 92% "fresh" rating from 12 reviews, with an average of 6.9/10. On Metacritic, it had an average score of 65 out of 100, based on 4 reviews.
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