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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


* KillEmAll: Out of the main and secondary characters, only [[spoiler:Ai’ai and Shujun, Zenong’s wife]] are left standing.
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* ProductionPosse: Gwei Lun Mei and Lian Fan previously appeared in ''Black Coal, Thin Ice''

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* ProductionPosse: Gwei Lun Mei and Lian Fan seem to be the start of this, having previously appeared in ''Black Coal, Thin Ice''
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* ProductionPosse: Gwei Lun Mei and Lian Fan previously appeared in ''Black Coal, Thin Ice''

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* FilmNoir: Ticks off all the marks, down to the cigarette-smoking FemmeFatale and near-constant rainstorms (to be fair, it’s set mid-summer in Wuhan).

* ForegoneConclusion



* FilmNoir: Ticks off all the marks, down to the cigarette-smoking FemmeFatale and near-constant rainstorms (to be fair, it’s set mid-summer in Wuhan).

* ForegoneConclusion
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[Cat’s Ear is impaled by an umbrella that opens on the other side to conveniently catch the blood spray]]

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[Cat’s [[spoiler:Cat’s Ear is impaled by an umbrella that opens on the other side to conveniently catch the blood spray]]

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* DisasterDominoes: Because Cat’s Eye and Cat’s Ear wanted Xingye Road as their territory, Redhead loses his cool and shoots Cat’s Ear, which prompts an all-out brawl, which has the syndicate leader having to make it right via a motorbike theft competition. [[spoiler:Cat’s Eye sets up a trap for Redhead that leads to his decapitation in front of Zenong, who is then shot by Cat’s Eye. His injuries (and the rainstorm) block his vision, which leads to Zenong killing a cop and him being on the run.]]

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* DisasterDominoes: Because Cat’s Eye and Cat’s Ear wanted Xingye Road as their territory, Redhead loses his cool and shoots Cat’s Ear, which prompts an all-out brawl, which has the syndicate leader having to make it right via a motorbike theft competition. [[spoiler:Cat’s Eye sets up a trap for Redhead that leads to his decapitation in front of Zenong, who is then shot by Cat’s Eye. His injuries (and the rainstorm) block his vision, which leads to Zenong killing a cop and him being on the run.]]
]] This series of unfortunate events comes around and results in the deaths of [[spoiler:both Cat’s Eye and Cat’s Ear]].


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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[Cat’s Ear is impaled by an umbrella that opens on the other side to conveniently catch the blood spray]]
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* KillEmAll: Out of the main and secondary characters, only [[spoiler:Ai’ai and Shujun, Zenong’s wife]] are left standing.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: To be expected in a film about low-level gangsters and an unhappy prostitute.



* NoHonorAmongThieves: Once that 300,000RMB bounty is announced, Zenong’s associates and enemies both are vying for the prize.

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*JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Instead of trying to escape Wuhan with his life and freedom intact and potentially making life difficult for the wife and son he abandoned, Zenong hatches a plan to make sure his capture benefits his family by securing the bounty on his head goes to them.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: Once that 300,000RMB bounty is announced, Zenong’s associates and enemies both are vying alike vie for the prize.


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* DisasterDominoes: Because Cat’s Eye and Cat’s Ear wanted Xingye Road as their territory, Redhead loses his cool and shoots Cat’s Ear, which prompts an all-out brawl, which has the syndicate leader having to make it right via a motorbike theft competition. Cat’s Eye sets up a trap for Redhead that leads to his decapitation in front of Zenong, who is then shot by Cat’s Eye. His injuries (and the rainstorm) block his vision, which leads to Zenong killing a cop and him being on the run.

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* DisasterDominoes: Because Cat’s Eye and Cat’s Ear wanted Xingye Road as their territory, Redhead loses his cool and shoots Cat’s Ear, which prompts an all-out brawl, which has the syndicate leader having to make it right via a motorbike theft competition. Cat’s [[spoiler:Cat’s Eye sets up a trap for Redhead that leads to his decapitation in front of Zenong, who is then shot by Cat’s Eye. His injuries (and the rainstorm) block his vision, which leads to Zenong killing a cop and him being on the run. \n]]



* OffWithHisHead: Redhead via a strategically placed forklift prong.

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* NoHonorAmongThieves: Once that 300,000RMB bounty is announced, Zenong’s associates and enemies both are vying for the prize.

* FilmNoir: Ticks off all the marks, down to the cigarette-smoking FemmeFatale and near-constant rainstorms (to be fair, it’s set mid-summer in Wuhan).

* OffWithHisHead: Redhead [[spoiler:Redhead]] via a strategically placed forklift prong.prong.

*TheOldestProfession: Ai’ai is a lakeside prostitute known as a “bathing beauty.

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南方车站的聚会 (Nanfang Chezhan De Juhui; lit. Meeting At The South Train Station) is a 2019 Chinese neo-noir crime thriller brainchild of Black Coal, Thin Ice director, Diao Yinan.

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南方车站的聚会 (Nanfang ''The Wild Goose Lake'' (南方车站的聚会 Nanfang Chezhan De Juhui; lit. Meeting At The South Train Station) is a 2019 Chinese neo-noir crime thriller brainchild of Black Coal, Thin Ice director, Diao Yinan. \n Notable for being filmed entirely in the Wuhan dialect and starring the Shanghai born-and-raised Hu Ge and Taiwanese Gwei Lun-Mei.

Zhou Zenong is a small-time gang leader that has just been released from prison after serving a five-year sentence. Almost immediately afterward, he attends a crime syndicate meeting where a disagreement of territory has a DisasterDominoes effect and leads to Zenong on the run from the cops.

Realizing his number is up, he wants to ensure the bounty on his head goes to his wife and son. Enter Liu Ai’ai, a “bathing beauty”, who is tasked with the job of turning in Zenong. Of course, it’s not as simple as marching into a police precinct...



* DisasterDominoes: Because Cat’s Eye and Cat’s Ear wanted Xingye Road as their territory, Redhead loses his cool and shoots Cat’s Ear, which prompts an all-out brawl, which has the syndicate leader having to make it right via a motorbike theft competition. Cat’s Eye sets up a trap for Redhead that leads to his decapitation in front of Zenong, who is then shot by Cat’s Eye. His injuries (and the rainstorm) block his vision, which leads to Zenong killing a cop.

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* DisasterDominoes: Because Cat’s Eye and Cat’s Ear wanted Xingye Road as their territory, Redhead loses his cool and shoots Cat’s Ear, which prompts an all-out brawl, which has the syndicate leader having to make it right via a motorbike theft competition. Cat’s Eye sets up a trap for Redhead that leads to his decapitation in front of Zenong, who is then shot by Cat’s Eye. His injuries (and the rainstorm) block his vision, which leads to Zenong killing a cop.cop and him being on the run.


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*OffWithHisHead: Redhead via a strategically placed forklift prong.
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南方车站的聚会 (Nanfang Chezhan De Juhui; lit. Meeting At The South Train Station) is a 2019 Chinese neo-noir crime thriller brainchild of Black Coal, Thin Ice director, Diao Yinan.


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* DisasterDominoes: Because Cat’s Eye and Cat’s Ear wanted Xingye Road as their territory, Redhead loses his cool and shoots Cat’s Ear, which prompts an all-out brawl, which has the syndicate leader having to make it right via a motorbike theft competition. Cat’s Eye sets up a trap for Redhead that leads to his decapitation in front of Zenong, who is then shot by Cat’s Eye. His injuries (and the rainstorm) block his vision, which leads to Zenong killing a cop.

*HowWeGotHere: The first half of the film is Zenong and Ai’ai both recalling the events that lead up to their meeting at the train station.
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