A Beautiful Life is a 2011 romance film directed by Andrew Lau

Andrew Lau

Andrew Lau Wai-Keung is a Hong Kong cinematographer and filmmaker. Lau began his career in the 1980s and 1990s, serving as a cinematographer to filmmakers such as Ringo Lam, Wong Jing and Wong Kar-wai. In the 1990s, Lau decided to have more creative freedom as a cinematographer by becoming a film...

 and starring Shu Qi

Shu Qi

Shu Qi is the stage name of a Taiwanese actress born Lin Li-Hui . Her stage name is occasionally romanized as Hsu Chi or Shu Kei . Her name is sometimes seen in the Western order as Qi Shu.-Early life:...

, Liu Ye

Liu Ye

Liu Ye is a Chinese film and television actor.-Career:From the beginning of his acting career when he was a 20 year old student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, Liu Ye's talent in acting was apparent very early on...

, Tian Liang

Tian Liang

Tian Liang is a male Chinese former diver. In the Summer Olympics 2004, he won the bronze medal in the 10 m platform event and a gold medal in the synchronised platform event...

, Feng Danying, Sa Rina, Zhang Songwen and Gao Tian with a special appearance by Anthony Wong.

Plot

A beautiful real-estate agent Li Peiru (Shu Qi) gets drunk at a karaoke bar and throws up on a righteous but lonely cop Fang Zhendong (Liu Ye). Zhendong quickly falls in love with the flirtatious Peiru despite the fact that she's having a torturous affair with a married man who happens to be her boss. As Peiru gradually abandons her materialistic values after being dumped and fired by her boss, she realises that she has fallen in love with the good hearted Zhendong but it becomes apparent that he is suffering from a disease that is robbing him of his mental faculties.

This movie is about Li Peiru looking for happiness at the wrong places, until fate brings her to Fang Zhendong.

Cast

Cast	Role
Shu Qi Shu Qi Shu Qi is the stage name of a Taiwanese actress born Lin Li-Hui . Her stage name is occasionally romanized as Hsu Chi or Shu Kei . Her name is sometimes seen in the Western order as Qi Shu.-Early life:...	Li Peiru
Liu Ye	Fang Zhengdong
Tian Liang	Fang Zhencong
Feng Danying	Xiaowan
Sa Rina	Xiaowan's mother
Zhang Songwen
Gao Tian
Anthony Wong

External links

• Official website
• The Beautiful Life at Hong Kong Cinemagic
  Hong Kong Cinemagic
  Hong Kong Cinemagic, sometimes referred to as HKCinemagic, is a bilingual website providing a repository for information about Chinese language films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and the people that created them. The website contains news, interviews, film reviews and a database of people,...