China during the warring 1920s: Notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, himself a small-time imposter.

Hell-bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wits and brutality ensues.

Starring action legend Chow Yun-Fat, Let the Bullets Fly broke the box office record to become the highest-grossing domestic film in Chinese history.