The Chef, The Actor, The Scoundrel

Mar 29, 2013

1h 48m

★ 6.2

Overview

World War II: a cholera epidemic ravages the streets of Beijing. A crack team of Chinese intelligence agents kidnap a Japanese general and biochemist who may hold the antidote.

Genres

Comedy

Action

Production Companies

Enlight Pictures

Beijing No.5 Movement Culture Media

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Cast

The Chef

Liu Ye

The Actor

Zhang Hanyu

The Scoundrel

Huang Bo

Chef's wife

Liang Jing

Chief detective

Wang Xun

Second Lieutenant Sakura Yanagida

Chie Tanaka

Japanese commander

Ryu Kohata

Captain Igarashi

Minowa Yasufumi

Lieutenant Shinichi Sugai

Takashima Shinichi

Colonel Goro Ogasawara

Masanobu Otsuka

Erqiu

Fei Zhenxiang

Sanpao

Zhao Su-Chen

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