Sheep Without a Shepherd

Sheep Without a Shepherd
Theatrical release poster
Traditional Chinese誤殺
Simplified Chinese误杀
Literal meaningManslaughter
Hanyu Pinyinwùshā
Directed bySam Quah
Written byWeiwei Yang
Pei Zhai
Peng Li
Kaihua Fan
Yuqian Qin
Sheng Lei
Produced byChen Sicheng
StarringXiao Yang
Tan Zhuo
Joan Chen
CinematographyYing Zhang
Edited byHongjia Tang
Xinyu Zu
Release date
  • 13 December 2019 (2019-12-13) (China)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin
Box officeUS$199.2 million[1][2]

Sheep Without a Shepherd (Chinese: 误杀; pinyin: Wù Shā; lit. 'Manslaughter') is a 2019 Chinese crime thriller film directed by Sam Quah (柯汶利) and produced by Chen Sicheng. It is an official remake of the 2013 Indian Malayalam-language film Drishyam. The film stars Xiao Yang, Tan Zhuo, and Joan Chen.[3] Sheep Without a Shepherd was released in China on 13 December 2019 in conventional and IMAX formats. It became the 9th highest-grossing Chinese film in 2019, grossing US$199 million.[4][5]

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