What happens when a Chinese film director meets a foreign actor (David Moser of the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies and the author of "Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard")? Watch and learn how hard it is to play a role in a Chinese film.
This classic comedy sketch from the 1986 New Year's Eve Gala features a wily, unlicensed lamb skewer vendor trying to get out of paying a fine.
The skit continues with the lamb skewer hawker pretending to be a Uyghur- the ethnic minority associated with his culinary product- to fool the inspector. The only problem is, he knows nothing about his fake homeland, the far western region of Xinjiang.
The enterprising but fraudulent lamb skewer vendor keeps up his charade, pretending not to know enough Mandarin to understand the inspector when he requests to see the man's business license.
The rogue lamb skewer hawker's act is starting to wear thin with an increasingly frustrated inspector. Luckily, he's saved when his dodgy meat comes to the rescue.
The wily vendor has duped the inspector for long enough now. His act is beginning to fall apart and his luck is running out.
A young couple is facing the problem of where to go celebrate Chinese New Year since both of them want to avoid being asked difficult questions by their own parents.
As the couple debates where to go to celebrate the New Year, the woman's father unexpectedly shows up with a plan to uncover the lies she's been telling him about her career.
With the help of a distant relative, the father is determined to discover the truth about his daughter's career.
As the conversation progresses, the young woman is put to the test and asked a lot of difficult questions by her father and his accomplice.
Looking for ways to get his daughter to tell the truth, the father and his accomplice start asking her to reconcile quite impossible situations.
As she is faced with the first difficult situation to solve, the daughter is forced to lie once again and the ice just gets thinner and thinner.
As the situation evolves to the point where the daughter cannot lie anymore, is there anything she can do to get herself out of it?
The moment of truth is coming closer as the lies keep building up. This time, there will be no way out.
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