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Let the Bullets Fly (simplified Chinese: 让子弹飞; traditional Chinese: 讓子彈飛; Mandarin Pinyin: Ràng Zǐ Dàn Fēi; Jyutping: Joeng6 Zi2 Daan6 Fei1) is a 2010 action comedy film written and directed by Jiang Wen, based on a story by Ma Shitu, a famous Sichuanese writer.The film is set in Sichuan during the 1920s when the bandit Zhang (Jiang Wen) descends upon a town posing as its new mayor. The film also stars Chow Yun-fat, Carina Lau, Ge You, Chen Kun and Zhou Yun.

The film's script went through over thirty drafts before Jiang Wen was happy with it. Let the Bullets Fly was originally to be released in September 2010 but was pushed back to December. Made in Mandarin and Sichuanese, the film broke several box office records in Mainland China and Hong Kong, and has received critical acclaim, when it was released. Let the Bullets Fly grossed 730 million yuan (US$111 million) in Chinese box office.becoming the highest grossing domestic film in China until it was beaten by Painted Skin: The Resurrection in 2012.

Set in China during the warring 1920s,"Pocky" Zhang Mazi (Jiang Wen) leads a group of bandits (each of whom is numbered rather than named). The gang ambush a government train carrying Ma Bangde (Ge You), who is on his way to Goose Town to assume the position of governor. Ma's train is derailed, killing both his bodyguards and his counselor, Tang (Feng Xiaogang). Ma has no money, having spent it all to buy his position; to avoid being killed by Zhang's bandits he lies to them, claiming that he is actually Counselor Tang and that his wife (Carina Lau) was the dead governor's wife. He tells the bandits that, if they spare him and his wife, he will help Zhang to impersonate Ma and pilfer Goose Town's finances.

At Goose Town, Zhang's appointment is opposed by local mobster Master Huang (Chow Yun Fat), who lives in a fortified citadel. Ma tells Zhang that previous governors would split taxes levied from the town residents with Huang. However, Zhang is not interested in taking money from the poor. Wu (Jiang Wu), one of Huang's subordinates, severely injures a citizen, and as governor Zhang rules against Wu in the town court. In retaliation, Huang frames Zhang's godson, Six, for theft. Six kills himself to prove his innocence. Zhang vows to destroy Huang, but Ma advises him to use cunning rather than brute force. Huang invites Zhang to a meal at his citadel, and there Huang pretends to have his subordinates killed as a sign of good faith. Not realising the governor is actually the bandit chief, Huang raises a plan to hunt down and kill Zhang Mazi. Zhang pretends to agree to this plan, so long as Huang finances the expedition.

That night, Huang disguises his subordinates as Mazi's bandits and sends them to assassinate Zhang while he is asleep. However, only Ma's wife is killed. In grief, Ma reveals his true identity as governor to Zhang. During the funeral for Ma's wife, Zhang has his bandits kidnap Huang and the heads of Goose Town's two leading families for ransom. They quickly discover they have captured Huang's look-alike. The town raises the ransom money but Zhang refuses to take it, instead returning it to the townsfolk. As they do so, Flora, a young prostitute in Huang's custody, discovers their identity. She is captured but becomes friendly with Master Two and Master Three and later stays on as a bandit, helping them to guard Huang's look-alike. Huang sends his own subordinates, also disguised as bandits, to retrieve the money handed back to the town. A woman comes to find Ma, saying that he seduced her while in Shanxi and he is the father of her son. As compensation, Ma gives them two jewels that Huang had given Zhang.

• Yun-Fat Chow         ...     Master Huang
• Kun Chen         ...     Hu Wan
• Xiaogang Feng         ...     Counselor Tang
• Carina Lau          ...     Mrs. Ma
• Wen Jiang         ...     Pocky Zhang
• You Ge     You Ge         ...     Ma Bangde
• Jun Hu     Jun Hu         ...     Fake Pocky
• Wu Jiang         ...     Master Wu
• Yun Zhou         ...     Flora
• Pu Miao          ...     Shanxi MIstress
• Fan Liao         ...     Three
• Lu Yao     Lu Yao         ...     Hu Qian
• Mo Zhang          ...     Six
• Bing Shao         ...     Two
• Xiao Wei          ...     Seven

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