Actor and director. He starred in Zhang Yimou's 红高粱 (1987) and directed 阳光灿烂的日子 and 让子弹飞 (2010), a bandit comedy whose political hints audiences still decode.
Let the Bullets Fly is Jiang Wen's highest-grossing work.
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His film gave everyday Chinese the line 让子弹飞一会儿, 'let the bullet fly a while', said in the film after a shot that seems to have missed. People now use it to mean: wait for the results, or the full facts, before reacting.
