The Breakup Guru (Chinese: 分手大师) is a 2014 Chinese romantic-comedy-drama film directed by Deng Chao and Yu Baimei and also starring Deng Chao and Yang Mi.[2] The film was released on June 27, 2014.[3]

The Breakup Guru
Traditional Chinese分手大師
Simplified Chinese分手大师
Hanyu Pinyinfēnshǒu dàshī
Directed byDeng Chao
Yu Baimei
Written byBaimei Yu
Produced byRob Stanic
Tim Purcell
StarringDeng Chao
Yang Mi
Guli Nazha
Liu Yan
CinematographyDu Jie
Edited byYiran Tu
Release date
  • June 27, 2014 (2014-06-27)
Running time
116 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin
Box officeUS$111.4 million (worldwide)[1]

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Mei Yuangui (Deng Chao), a professional 'Breakup Guru', who is hired by a client to end a relationship with Ye Xiaochun (Yang Mi). But his penchant and skill at breaking up couples without complication and worry is put to the test when a battle of wits ensues with Xiao Zhuang (Guli Nazha), risking his reputation and setting up the ultimate test of his services!

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Reception edit

The film has earned US$107,440,000 in China.[4] It earned a total of US$111.4 million worldwide.[1]

On Film Business Asia, Derek Elley gave the film a grade of 6 out of 10.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Nancy Tartaglione and David Bloom (January 10, 2015). "'Transformers 4′ Tops 2014's 100 Highest-Grossing International Films – Chart". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  2. ^ "分手大师The Breakup Guru (2014)". movie.mtime.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  3. ^ "Film "The Breakup Guru" hits screen on June 27". Sina Corp. 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
  4. ^ "Weekly box office 21/07/2014 - 27/07/2014". english.entgroup.cn. Archived from the original on 2014-07-29. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  5. ^ Derek Elley (2014-08-04). "The Breakup Guru". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2014-08-12.

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