''Welcome to Shama Town'' is a 2010 Chinese

adventure film The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...

directed and written by Li Weiran, starring

Sun Honglei Sun Honglei ( zh, s=孙红雷; born 16 August 1970) is a Chinese actor. His critically acclaimed television series '' Lurk'' (2008) earned him the Best Actor trophy at the three most prestigious Chinese-language television awards including the ...

Lin Chi-ling Lin Chi-ling (born 29 November 1974) is a Taiwanese actress, model, and television personality. Early life Lin Chi-ling was born on 29 November 1974 in Taipei, Taiwan, to Lin Fan-nan ( zh, c=林繁男) and Wu Tzu-mei ( zh, t=吳慈美). Both ...

, Li Liqun, and

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. It was distributed by

Shanghai Media Group Radio and Television Station of Shanghai (RTS), a Shanghai-based state media outlet, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Shanghai Media Group (SMG), represent one of the largest state-owned media conglomerates of the People's Republic of China, wi ...

and LeTV Investment Co. Ltd and released by

China Film Group Corporation China Film Group Corporation (CFGC) is the largest, most influential film enterprise in the People's Republic of China, owned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. According to ''Forbes'', it is a state monopoly ...

, Huaxia Film Distribution Company, Dadi Time Film Distribution Co., LTD, and Shanghai Star Cultural Transmission Co., LTD. It was released in China on 22 June 2010. The film received a nomination at the 47th

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in the

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category.

Cast

as Tang Gaopeng, the Village Chief of Shama Town. *

as Chun Niang, Tang Gaopeng's lover. * Li Liqun as Zhou Dingbang, the tomb raider. *

as Tao Hua * Ma Jian as Gui Zhong. * Xie Yuan as Mian Bin. * Ma Delin as Da Pao. * Huang Haibo as Da Cui, the cultural relics dealer. * Cao Bingkun as Chen Dili. *

Bao Bei'er Bao Bei'er (; born 3 May 1984) is a Chinese actor. He is noted for his roles as Lu Maoku and Zhang Kai in the films ''Welcome to Shama Town'' and '' So Young'' respectively. Early life Bao was born and raised in Harbin, Heilongjiang, his paren ...

as Lu Maoku. * Zhao Ziqi as the newspaper woman. *

Cica Zhou Cica Zhou (; born 26 August 1982) is a Chinese actress and model of Sui people, Sui ethnicity. Early life Zhou was born and raised in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou. She graduated from Beijing Newface Model School. Car ...

as the female bodyguard. * Ma Li as Mian Bin's wife. *

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as Xiao P.

Production

Sun Honglei filmed several scenes in Yongtai Ancient City, Yellow River Stone Forest, and Dunhuang Studio in

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, China.

Release

It was released in mainland China on 22 June 2010.

Box office

It grossed ¥25 million on its opening weekend, it was a huge hit at the box office and flew straight to the top of the box office. It grossed ¥40 million on its second weekend.

References

External links

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