Old-fashioned Ye Rutang, a single woman in her sixties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai, a city that seems to have become the receptacle for all kinds of con men. The first to pull a scam on Ye is her twelve-year-old nephew Kuan-kuan. He moves to her old-fashioned apartment after breaking a leg in an accident, but when he can't bear her stinginess, he runs away and pretends to have been kidnapped in order to get the ransom money. Then comes Pan Zhichang, an amateur opera singer, who tricks Ye into a relationship and steals most of her savings with a complicated swindle involving speculation in the price of cemetery plots.

release year: 2006

star(s): Chow Yun-fat