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''Guns and Roses'' () is a 2012 Chinese film directed by Ning Hao. ==Plot== The film is set in the 1930s in Changchun, capital of Manchukuo. A thief (Lei Jiayin) goes into a cathedral and robs the priest (Fan Wei), claiming that he is a member of the underground revolution. As he is running away, the police capture him. Meanwhile, two rebels go to a cinema to exchange messages, but a genius Japanese general (Keiichi Yamasaki) kills one and captures the other. The thief is given leniency and spends only two days in jail. Sharing a cell with him is the captured rebel, who gives him his clothes as a gift. The thief goes back to his destitute home where he lives with his old and ailing father (Guo Tao), a veteran of the Boxer Rebellion. He has difficulty paying the rent. He cuts open the shoe and finds a hidden message saying that a shipment of gold is bound for the central bank. The rebels kidnap him and bring him to their base, which is a film studio, since the rebel group is composed of people in the film industry. The thief is promised a share of the gold and relays the message. As they are going home, they are chased by Japanese soldiers coming out of a bar, but with the help of the thief, who hides them in the earlier cathedral, they evade the soldiers. To find out the convoy route, one rebel (Tao Hong), a well known actress, uses her fame to attend a party at the central-bank president's house. She goes to the president's study and tries to copy the map, but her plan is ruined after the thief's father causes a disturbance. Now shunned by the rebels, the thief tries to beg for money. By luck, he runs into the daughter (Cheng Yuanyuan) of the bank's president. He saves her from an air raid while being injured himself. In gratitude, the girl takes him into the bank president's home and nurses him, where he is able to draw a copy of that map, leading to his reacceptance into the rebel group. The rebels buy weapons from country-side bandits, but they mysteriously go missing. Nonetheless, the rebels manage to capture the convoy using deception. The thief goes home with his own share of the gold, but gets reported by his land-lord. When he flees, the general captures his father and prepares to execute him, forcing the thief to surrender himself. However, as the general captures the other rebels, the thief's father overcomes his senility and regains the fighting skills from his youth, overpowering the soldiers and buying everyone time to escape. However, he is killed by a stray bullet. The rebels and the thief attend another party to murder both the general and the Italian minister of finance. The shootout fails and all the rebels are killed, with the thief being captured. The police captain decides to execute the thief informally by shooting him and throwing him into a river, but he ends up surviving. He feels immense guilt over the rebels' deaths and refuses an offer by the girl to flee the city and marry her. The thief does a final operation, this time consisting of charging into the bank in a truck while shooting a sub-machine-gun, and then pouring a container of acid into the vault to force the gold to dissolve. The bandits from earlier assist him, inspired by his suicidal courage. Unfortunately, the general kills the girl in retribution before being killed himself. Heavily changed by all of these events, the thief goes on to give up crime and grieves over the innocent girl's death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guns and Roses (2012 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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