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The Island (Chinese: 一出好戏) is a 2018 Chinese fantasy comedy film written and directed by Huang Bo. The film stars Huang Bo, Wang Baoqiang, Shu Qi, Lay Zhang, and Yu Hewei. It is the directorial debut film of Huang Bo. The film premiered in China on August 10, 2018.
Plot
Passengers of a sea bus, including brothers Ma Jin and Xiao Xing, and their colleagues, get stuck in an island and are forced to survive with each other. Meanwhile, Ma Jin and Xiao Xing discover a way to unite the passengers for survival by selling them fishes with playing cards as money, in which Xiao Xing immediately abused his power in and causing brotherly-relationship problems with Ma Jin.
Cast
Huang Bo as Ma Jin
Shu Qi as Shanshan
Lay Zhang as Xiao Xing
Wang Baoqiang as Xiao Wang
Yu Hewei as President Zhang
Wang Xun as Lao Pan (Old Pan)
Li Qinqin as Sister Qi
Li Youlin as Professor
Liu Yanqing as Zhao Tianlong
Zhang Lei as Lao Yu (Old Yu)
Hao Wenting as Wen Juan
Yang Kaidi as Lucy
Xu Zheng as Passenger
Guan Hu
Liang Jing as Doctor
Ning Hao
Teddy Chan
Fang Xiaohang
Wei Jiamei
Sun Zhongqiu
Production
Huang Bo stated that The Island is partly influenced by the 2009 American film 2012 directed by Roland Emmerich. Huang spent over 3 years to write the screenplay. It is Huang Bo's directorial debut. Huang collaborated on the screenplay with no fewer than six writers: Zhang Ji, Guo Junli, Zha Muchun, Cui Siwei, Xing Aina, and Huang Zhanzhong.
Soundtrack
Copyright issue
On August 12, 2018, Yu Mengyuan (Chinese: 于梦媛) claimed that the screenplay of The Island bear similarities to her work Men's Crisis (Chinese: 男人危机).
Release
The Island premiered in China on August 10, 2018. It grossed 150 million yuan on its first day. The film grossed total of 1,350,000,000 yuan.
Reception
The film was a commercial and critical success, receiving a rating of 7.3 out of 10 from Douban.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
The Island at Douban (in Chinese)
The Island at Mtime.com (archived) (in Chinese)
The Island at IMDb
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