2009, "A Simple Noodle Story"

Poster of the film, "A Simple Noodle Story"

Wang is a gloomy and cunning noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. Feeling neglected, Wang’s wife secretly goes out with Li, one of the employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun the landlady bought for "killing her husband later".

Every single move they make, however, does not escape the boss’s notice. Wang decides to bribe patrol officer Zhang to kill the illicit couple. It looks like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel but satisfying end… or so he thinks. The equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own that will see more violence than necessary…