Bus 44

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Bus 44
Directed byDayyan Eng
Written byDayyan Eng
Produced byDayyan Eng
StarringGong Beibi
Wu Chao
Li Yixiang
Cinematography
Edited byDayyan Eng
Music by
Distributed by
Release date
2001
Running time
Short: 11 min.
CountryHong Kong / U.S.
LanguageMandarin

Bus 44 (simplified Chinese: 车四十四; traditional Chinese: 車四十四; pinyin: Chē Sì Shí Sì), written and directed by Chinese-American filmmaker Dayyan Eng in 2001, is a short film starring Chinese actress Gong Beibi and Wu Chao. The film won awards at Venice Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and was invited to Cannes Film Festival; the first time a Chinese short film won in all three festivals' history.

Supposedly based on true events, Bus 44 takes place on the outskirts of a small town and tells the story of a bus driver (Gong) and her passengers' encounter with highway robbers. "Bus 44" carries a universal theme that travels across all boundaries and societies, trespassing the dark side and bright side of human behavior.

SPOILERS: The short film introduces a female driver driving a bus on a remote mountain road. A young man came up on the way. The two people had a good impression during their conversation. Two gangsters stopped the bus and boarded it. They got on the bus and robbed all the passengers' belongings. However, the gangsters did not end their crime at robbery, but they also pulled the female driver out of the bus and raped her. At the critical moment, all the passengers in the car thought "more is worse than less" and chose to remain indifferent. Only the guy went down to rescue the female driver, but he was also stabbed in the leg with a knife and beaten by the culprit. After that, the two gangsters left, and the traumatized female driver returned to the car, but removed the young man out of the bus and took the other passengers on the road. The young man had to get in another car to move on. Later, he found that there were many policemen in front of him. After asking, he learned that the female driver drove the bus down the cliff, and neither she nor the other passengers were spared.

"Bus 44" has been viewed by millions of people around the world on TV, in theaters, and online. In China and Korea, the film has been widely available online since its debut, and on YouTube alone, the film has garnered around 5 millions views. In 2013, American stand-up comedian, Reginald D. Hunter, related the entire plot of Bus 44 to audiences during one of his routines about "f*** you movies".

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