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The Bullet Vanishes (2012)

The Bullet Vanishes poster
Original title
消失的子弹
Directed by
Law Chi-leung
Genre
horror film
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
1h 48m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 80 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1930s China, a detective duo investigates a series of strange murders where the bullets disappear from the crime scenes. The case becomes complicated when a factory girl accused of stealing bullets is found dead.

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What happens

The Bullet Vanishes (also known as Ghost Bullets and Disappeared Bullets) is a 2012 mystery film. A Hong Kong-Chinese co-production, the film was written by Yeung Sin-leung and directed by Lo Chi-leung, produced by Mandy Law and Derek Yee, and starring Nicholas Tse, Lau Ching-wan, Yang Mi, Boran Jing, Wu Gang and Liu Kai-chi. The film concerns a detective duo investigating a series of strange murders, in which the bullets used seemingly vanish (and hence the title), after the death of a factory girl accused as the perpetrator of the theft of a few bullets. Set in 1930s Tiancheng County, China, filming took place in Shanghai. Grossing US$25,280,000 in ticket sales domestically in China, The Bullet Vanishes is the eighth-highest-grossing Chinese film of 2012. The film was followed by a sequel, The Vanished Murderer, in 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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