Just Call Me Nobody

Just Call Me Nobody
Directed by	Kevin Chu
Produced by	Fargo Pi
Written by	Ning Caishen
Starring	Xiao Shen Yang Kelly Lin Banny Chen Zhao Benshan Eric Tsang Jacky Wu Xiao Xiao Bin
Music by	Ricky Ho
Cinematography	Du Jie
Edited by	Chen Po-wen
Release dates	December 3, 2010 (2010-12-03) (China)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Taiwan China

Just Call Me Nobody (大笑江湖) is a 2010 comedy-martial arts film directed by Kevin Chu. The film is about a bumbling cobbler (Xiao Shen Yang) who becomes a martial arts master.

Plot summary

In ancient China, a poor shoe repair man Wu Di (Xiao Shen Yang) lives with his mother (Chen Hui-chuen) and is obsessed with martial-arts picture books. Wu Di repairs the shoe of the swordswoman Yuelou (Kelly Lin) and later helps save her in a fight despite having no martial-arts training. She thanks him and says she can be found on Qin Mountain if she is needed. Yuelou is secretly a princess who is due to marry the emperor (Banny Chen) but escape after setting the palace on fire.

Production

Just Call Me Nobody finished filming in later September.

Release

Just Call Me Nobody was released on December 3, 2010 in China and is set to be released in Taiwan on January 26, 2011. On its release in China, the film topped the box office grossing $9,018,081.

Reception

Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave the film a rating of three out of ten, referring to the film as "poorly scripted" and actor Xiao Shen Yang as "a weak lead". A negative review of the film came from my paper, that said the best thing about the film was the "local marketing strategy" and that "Many Singaporeans could be drawn to the movie on the strength of its poster which touts the talents of top comics from the Chinese entertainment world...But once they watch the movie, they will realise they are the victims of a bait-and-switch: Tsang, Wu and Lee are merely guests making lame cameos."