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A World Without Thieves is a crime caper, a drama, and a travelogue all rolled into one. Wang Bo and Wang Li would have made a great Bonnie and Clyde. One is a seasoned con man and master pickpocket from Hong Kong, the other is a femme fatale from Taiwan. Partners in crime and passion, the couple swindle their way across China until one day Li suddenly decides to call it quits, both to her lifestyle and to her entanglements with Bo. It is at this crossroad in their lives they run into Fu Gen in a train station, an encounter that will alter their fate forever. Fu Gen is a young carpenter from the mountains who took out his family’s life savings of $60,000 to find a bride. The naive and rather honest Fu Gen is convinced that he lives in a “world without thieves,” but the very train he’s boarding is proof of the contrary. Besides Wang Bo and Wang Li, legendary thief Uncle Li and his gang is also on board. Fu Gen inadvertently becomes a pawn in a game where Wang Li protects him while Wang Bo wants to teach him a lesson about life.

Xiaogang Feng, the son of a Chinese Communist Party college professor and a factory nurse, began his cinema work in art design in Beijing Television Art Center in 1985. Later, he moved on to write screenplays. He achieved fame as the director of the movie Dream Factory (1997), which was a big hit in China.