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1	[[quoteright:348:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luxury_car_2373.jpg]]
2	''Luxury Car'' (江城夏日) is the third film directed by Wang Chao. A Sino-French coproduction, it was released in 2006.
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4	Li Qiming, an aging country schoolteacher, returns for the first time in 40 years to the sprawling metropolis of Wuhan in central China. He's looking for his estranged son, whom his cancer-stricken wife wants to see again before dying. His daughter, Yanhong, also lives in Wuhan, but although she had led him to think she had found a good job in the city, in fact she works as a "hostess" in a karaoke bar, and her employer, a former convict turned businessman, has made her his mistress.
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6	With the help of a kindly policeman about to retire, Li Qiming follows one trail after another, all the while reconnecting with his long-neglected daughter.
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9	!!This film provides examples of:
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11	* CountryMouse: Li Qiming is very much a FishOutOfWater in the big city. He still addresses people as "Comrade", a habit that fell out of favor decades ago, and is shocked by the crass materialism of urban life.
12	* KaraokeBox: The place where Yanhong works provides these to customers, along with hostesses who can be rented out for the night.
13	* NeedAHandOrAHandjob: When Li Qiming shows up at the karaoke bar asking for Yanhong, the staff assume he's a customer, and another girl volunteers to go with him instead.
14	* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Li Qiming's son.]]
15	* ScreamingBirth
16	* TitleDrop: "It's a luxury car..."
17	* VomitDiscretionShot: The first time Yanhong has a bout of MorningSickness. The second time around, it's a
18	* VomitIndiscretionShot:
19	** The second time Yanhong has a bout of morning sickness, she vomits on camera.
20	** It also happens when her inebriated father regurgitates his dinner.

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