Dream Factory (film)

Dream Factory
Directed by Feng Xiaogang
Written by Feng Xiaogang
Wang Gang
Based on Ni bushi yige suren (You're No Common Person) 
by Wang Shuo[1]
Release dates
 20 December 1997[2]
Country China
Language Mandarin
Budget 6 million yuan (830 thousand US dollars)[2]
Box office 36 million yuan[2]

The Dream Factory (Chinese: 甲方乙方; pinyin: Jiǎfāng Yǐfāng, literally "Party A, Party B") is a 1997 Chinese comedy film directed by Feng Xiaogang. It was one of the first notable and successful he sui pian (Chinese New Year) movies made in mainland China.[1] It was written by Feng Xiaogang and Wang Gang, adapting a Wang Shuo novel.

Plot

Four friends in Beijing—three men and a woman—start a company which specializes in fulfilling their clients' dreams. Enacting their wildest fantasies, they encounter many oddball clients along the way.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yomi Braester (2010), Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract, Duke University Press, p. 287, ISBN 978-0822392750
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Yuwu Song (2013), Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China, McFarland, p. 86, ISBN 978-0786435821