Breakup Buddies
Breakup Buddies is a 2014 Chinese romantic comedy and road film directed by Ning Hao. It stars Huang Bo and Xu Zheng as buddies on a wild 3,000-kilometre cross-country journey from Beijing to Dali City.
The film premiered at the 2014 [Toronto International Film Festival] on September 7, 2014, and was released domestically on September 30, 2014. It grossed over $195 million to become one of the List of [highest-grossing films in China|highest-grossing films in China].
Plot
Womanizer Hao Yi takes his best friend Geng Hao on a road trip to Dali City in Yunnan — China's unofficial capital of one-night stands — to help him recover from a devastating divorce. Years before, Kang Xiaoyu had traversed the same route to Dali where she met her future husband.Cast
- Huang Bo as Geng Hao
- Xu Zheng as Hao Yi
- Yuan Quan as Kang Xiaoyu
- Zhou Dongyu as Zhou Lijuan, a.k.a. "Christina"
- Tao Hui as Avatar girl
- Yue Xiaojun as an innkeeper
- Shen Teng as a bar owner
- Zhang Li as a Si Qing
- Jiao Junyan as Xiao Bei
- Ma Su as Shasha
- Liu Meihan
- Xiong Naijin as Kang Xiaoyu's best friend
- Liu Yiwei as a cop
- Wang Yanhui as a crime boss
- Lei Jiayin as a gangster
- Yong Mengting as a cosplay girl
- Liang Hao as Li Maomao, Zhou Lijuan's boyfriend
- Guo Tao as Kang Xiaoyu's attorney
- Li Chen as Kang Xiaoyu's new lover
- Xia Yu as Kang Xiaoyu's ex
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