Two Great Sheep

Two Great Sheep simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Ho d y di yng is a 2004 satirical Chinese film directed by Liu Hao and cast primarily with unknown actors.

The film follows a peasant couple, Zhao Deshan Sun Yunkun and his wife Xiuzhi Jiang Zhikun, living in rural Yunnan province near Zhaotong in southern China. Their lives are thrown into upheaval when the local mayor Chen Dajiang rewards them with two foreign sheep donated by a former villager, now an official in Beijing. The couple is then tasked with breeding the sheep for their wool and to bring prosperity to their small community. Much to their chagrin, the sheep do not take to their new environment and the couple are forced into ever more ingenious ways of making the sheep appear greater than they really are. As they do so, they also come to value the sheep as companions in their family. When it becomes clear that the two great sheep are not the boon they were thought to be, the local authorities repossess the animals. Only now the simply peasant couple no longer wish to give them up.A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, Liu started his career with the independent film, Chen Mo and Meiting 2002. Though never released in China, the film caught the attention of Chinese producers at the China Film Group CFG, who selected Liu to participate in the New Film Project, a joint investment by the CFG and the Peking UniversityKwans Group to fund new directors. With expectations that the film would be not only critically, but more importantly commercially successful, the China Film Group investedmillion to Liu for his next project, Two Great Sheep. ........

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