One Night Only (2016 film)

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One Night Only
One Night Only (2016 film) poster.jpeg
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Chinese 天亮之前
Directed by Matt Wu
Starring Aaron Kwok
Yang Zishan
Hao Lei
Andy On
Jack Kao
Production
companies
Heng Ye Film Distribution
Acutance Pictures Corp. of China
Century Great Dragon
Beijing Wanmei Xingkong Media
Wuxi Strange World Culture
Shenzhen Shanwei Pictures
Zhejiang Haoyu Hudong Media
China Guojing (Beijing) Media
Hongkong Hengye Film Distribution
Guangying Culture Media
Muke Entertainment [1]
Distributed byHeng Ye Film Distribution (China)
Release date
  • 22 July 2016 (2016-07-22)(China)
CountriesChina
Taiwan
LanguageMandarin
Box officeCN¥14.3 million

One Night Only is a 2016 Chinese-Taiwanese crime romantic drama film directed by Matt Wu. This is Wu's feature film directorial debut, and stars Aaron Kwok, Yang Zishan (Wu's wife), Hao Lei, Andy On and Jack Kao. [2] It was released in China by Heng Ye Film Distribution on July 22, 2016. [1]

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Plot [3]

Having lost all his fortune and loved ones from gambling, Gao Ye walks out from prison to an even more cruel world. Intrigued by a beautiful hooker who approaches him for unknown reasons, he comes up with a master plan to redeem everything he once had. But things immediately spin wildly out of control as they find themselves fallen into a bigger scheme set up by the underground. Will they survive this one night to see another sunrise?

Cast [2]

Reception

The film has grossed CN¥14.3 million in China. [1]

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