{ "id": "epdq9z5vx9", "slug": "go-away-mr-tumor", "title": "Go Away Mr. Tumor (滚蛋吧！肿瘤君)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "label": "Comedy and romantic films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2015-to-2016", "label": "Comedies of 2015 to 2016", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2015-to-2016" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2015-to-2016.alpha-symbols-to-j", "label": "Titles symbols to J", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2015-to-2016.alpha-symbols-to-j" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "label": "China · 2001 to 2020: Comedy and romantic films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "path": [ { "id": "geo.chn", "label": "China", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001", "label": "China · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "label": "Comedy and romantic films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Go Away Mr. Tumor (滚蛋吧！肿瘤君) is a 2015 Chinese comedy-drama directed by Han Yan, starring Bai Baihe and Daniel Wu, adapted from cartoonist Xiong Dun's autobiographical comic about her lymphoma treatment; it earned about 510 million yuan and was China's 88th Academy Awards entry.", "snippet": "Go Away Mr. Tumor (滚蛋吧！肿瘤君) is a 2015 Chinese comedy-drama directed by Han Yan, starring Bai Baihe and Daniel Wu, adapted from cartoonist Xiong Dun's autobiographical comic about her lymphoma treatment; it earned about 510 million yuan and was China's 88th Academy Awards entry.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2015-to-2016.alpha-symbols-to-j", "markdown": "# Go Away Mr. Tumor (滚蛋吧！肿瘤君)\n\n**Go Away Mr. Tumor** (滚蛋吧！肿瘤君) is a 2015 Chinese comedy-drama directed by Han Yan (韩延) and starring Bai Baihe (白百何) and [Daniel Wu](https://www.edgepedia.org/daniel-wu) (吴彦祖), adapted from the autobiographical comic of the same name by the cartoonist Xiong Dun (熊顿), who drew it while being treated for non-[Hodgkin lymphoma](https://www.edgepedia.org/hodgkin-lymphoma)[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2229393/info/) • [2](https://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2015-08/18/c_1116295761.htm). The film follows the 29-year-old Xiong Dun through emergency care, hematology, and chemotherapy, mixing fantasy sequences with her hospital life, and it became one of the highest-grossing Chinese films of August 2015 before being selected as mainland China's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2229393/info/) • [3](https://www.wanda.cn/2015/2015latest_1009/32059.html).\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original title | 滚蛋吧！肿瘤君； also released as Go Away Mr. Tumour[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2229393/info/) |\n| Director and cast | Directed by Han Yan; starring Bai Baihe, Daniel Wu, Li Yuan (李媛), and Liu Ruilin (刘芮麟)[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2229393/info/) |\n| Source | Xiong Dun's autobiographical comic, serialized online from February 2012 and published as a book in August 2012[4](https://paper.people.com.cn/rmrbhwb/html/2015-04/03/content_1549885.htm) |\n| Release | 13 August 2015 in China; 128 minutes; re-released in China in 2020 and released in South Korea on 12 May 2016[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2229393/info/) |\n| Box office | About 510 million yuan in mainland China; 54 million yuan on opening day[3](https://www.wanda.cn/2015/2015latest_1009/32059.html) • [5](https://www.wanda.cn/2015/2015latest_0820/31884.html) |\n| Awards | Golden Angel Award at the 11th Chinese American Film Festival (2015); Outstanding Youth Creation Film at the 16th Huabiao Awards (2016); nominated for Best Film at the 6th Beijing International Film Festival[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2229393/info/) |\n| International | China's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards; US gross of $284.4K[3](https://www.wanda.cn/2015/2015latest_1009/32059.html) • [6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/go_away_mr_tumor) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### The story and its source\n\nThe film's protagonist is Xiong Dun, a cheerful comic artist who loses her job and her boyfriend just before her 29th birthday, then collapses and is diagnosed with lymphoma. The story follows her from the emergency room to the hematology ward to chemotherapy, accompanied by fellow patients including the young boy Maodou and the bald but glamorous \"Queen\" Xia Meng, while the handsome Dr. Liang, played by Daniel Wu, exists mainly in her romantic fantasies[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2229393/info/).\n\nThe real Xiong Dun, whose given name was Xiang Yao, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2011 after experiencing unemployment and a breakup in Beijing. Five months into her hospital stay she began serializing a comic on Weibo, \"live-broadcasting\" her cancer treatment with bright colors and self-mocking humor, and telling readers that no hardship is unbeatable with firm belief and an optimistic attitude. She died on 16 November 2012[2](https://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2015-08/18/c_1116295761.htm) • [7](https://www.yicai.com/news/4662949.html).\n\nHer comic first appeared in February 2012 on the Tianya forum under the title \"滚蛋吧肿瘤君，记录与肿瘤抗争的病院日子\" (Go away, Mr. Tumor: recording my hospital days fighting the tumor), and the collected book was published in August 2012; the [People's Daily](https://www.edgepedia.org/peoples-daily) overseas edition reported cumulative distribution of more than one million copies[4](https://paper.people.com.cn/rmrbhwb/html/2015-04/03/content_1549885.htm). Xiong Dun had wanted the comic made into a film, a wish unfulfilled in her lifetime[8](https://news.sina.cn/2015-08-20/detail-ifxhcvrn0034284.d.html?vt=4).\n\n## From comic to screen\n\nThe adaptation took close to three years. Producer Zhang Weizhong, then a recent graduate running a four-person media company, signed the film adaptation rights with Xiong Dun in March 2012 and interviewed her repeatedly for material; screenwriter Tang Juan worked with Xiong Dun on an early draft while her illness briefly improved, and the post-1980s screenwriter Yuan Yuan later took over the script[9](https://culture.people.com.cn/n/2015/0807/c22219-27424335.html) • [10](https://media.people.com.cn/n/2015/0814/c40606-27460450.html).\n\nIn a public lecture, Yuan Yuan explained the adaptation choices. The film concentrates every storyline on Xiong Dun herself, sharply reducing supporting characters such as her friend Amy, and it adds a romantic thread with Dr. Liang that in the original comic existed only as Xiong Dun's self-directed fantasy. The characters Maodou and Xia Meng were real people from her treatment, carried into the film. Comedy packaging and a larger role for the male lead were deliberate concessions to the commercial market[11](https://www.jiemian.com/article/403613.html).\n\nDirector Han Yan said he was drawn to the project by Xiong Dun's story and did not visit a tumor hospital for research, saying he did not dare contact patients directly; a tumor specialist served as medical consultant throughout the shoot to keep the treatment scenes plausible. He framed the film broadly: \"Mr. Tumor\" stands for the biggest setback in anyone's life, and the film shows how a person gets through it[10](https://media.people.com.cn/n/2015/0814/c40606-27460450.html). Bai Baihe was the actress Xiong Dun herself had designated for the role, and the film marked her first collaboration with Daniel Wu, who joined after being moved by the script[12](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E6%BB%9A%E8%9B%8B%E5%90%A7%EF%BC%81%E8%82%BF%E7%98%A4%E5%90%9B/16848662).\n\n## Release and box office\n\nThe film opened in China on 13 August 2015. Its preview screenings took in 12.5 million yuan, exceeding the 5.8 million yuan preview record set by *Monster Hunt*, and opening-day ticket sales reached 54 million yuan for a 28 percent share of national screens[13](https://media.people.com.cn/n/2015/0813/c14677-27456250.html) • [5](https://www.wanda.cn/2015/2015latest_0820/31884.html). Within six days the total passed 239 million yuan according to Maoyan analysis figures, and it passed 300 million yuan in eight days, taking the weekly box-office crown with about 200 million yuan in its first four days[2](https://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2015-08/18/c_1116295761.htm) • [5](https://www.wanda.cn/2015/2015latest_0820/31884.html).\n\nBy 13 September 2015 the total stood at about 510 million yuan, and Wanda Pictures, the lead producer, credited the film along with *[Jian Bing Man](https://www.edgepedia.org/jian-bing-man)* with lifting its 2015 cumulative output to 2.9 billion yuan, first among Chinese private film companies[3](https://www.wanda.cn/2015/2015latest_1009/32059.html) • [5](https://www.wanda.cn/2015/2015latest_0820/31884.html). In the United States, distributed by China Lion Film Distribution, it earned $284.4K[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/go_away_mr_tumor).\n\nOn 8 October 2015 the film was confirmed as mainland China's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 88th Academy Awards, from a list of 81 countries and regions; Han Yan called the selection the best gift to the late Xiong Dun[3](https://www.wanda.cn/2015/2015latest_1009/32059.html). Some Chinese commentators questioned whether the film merited the selection over other 2015 titles; Han Yan responded that he had never imagined the film could stand beside classic films, and that his aim was simply to make more people know Xiong Dun's story[14](https://www.xinhuanet.com/world/2015-10/14/c_1116825246.htm).\n\n## Reception\n\nAudience response in China was strongly positive. The film scored 7.8 on the review site Douban[2](https://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2015-08/18/c_1116295761.htm), and pre-release test screenings at the Shanghai International Film Festival produced survey results in which 60 percent of viewers rated it \"excellent,\" against a 25 percent industry average, with 70 percent saying they would recommend it[15](https://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2015-06-19/doc-ifxefurs2608936.shtml). On Rotten Tomatoes it holds an 80 percent Tomatometer from a single listed review and an audience score of 80 percent from more than 250 ratings; Edmund Lee of the *South China Morning Post* gave it 3 of 5 stars, writing that its \"infectiously optimistic outlook should win over the casual viewers\"[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/go_away_mr_tumor).\n\nCritical opinion was more divided. A *People's Daily* review praised the narrative, comic-style editing, and crafted gags, but argued the film lost its balance in handling emotion: by blending friendship, family love, and romance too aggressively, the intended message of optimistic living became a seasoning rather than the center, and the swings between high comedy and grief lacked gentler transitions[16](https://culture.people.com.cn/n/2015/0825/c87423-27511916.html). A *Beijing Youth Daily* review went further, arguing that director Han Yan beautified Xiong Dun's reality to the point that the clinical presentation of a cancer patient was thoroughly distorted, softening what is in truth a tragedy[17](https://culture.people.com.cn/BIG5/n/2015/0818/c22219-27478030.html).\n\nThe film won the Golden Angel Award at the 11th Chinese American Film Festival in 2015 and the Outstanding Youth Creation Film award at the 16th Huabiao Awards in 2016; Bai Baihe won Best Actress at the 23rd Beijing Student Film Festival, and the film was nominated for Best Film at the 6th Beijing International Film Festival[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2229393/info/).\n\n## Legacy\n\nThe film established Han Yan's commercial profile in comic-based and illness-themed films. He followed it with *Animal World* and *A Little Red Flower* (送你一朵小红花), another cancer story that also earned high box office and reputation against a difficult release window, and Chinese commentary has grouped these films as a continuing line in his career[18](https://epaper.qingdaonews.com/qdrb/resfile/2024-01-29/10/qdrb2024012910.pdf) • [19](https://sjb.qlwb.com.cn/qlwb/PDF/20230701/A11.pdf). In a later interview Han Yan said his approach to comic adaptations had reversed: where he once pursued a comic-like feel in *Go Away Mr. Tumor*, he now strips the comic's visual influence away and keeps only the story[20](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_23555049?commTag=true).\n\nThe property also spread to other media. A stage play adaptation, produced with the comic platform Weimanhua, was announced in Beijing in July 2015 with Jiang Xiaohan among the cast[21](https://acg.gamersky.com/news/201507/621325.shtml), and a television series adaptation directed by Liu Jiacheng, starring Jiang Xin, went into production with the director sending his crew to a tumor hospital to observe patients and doctors[22](https://ent.sina.com.cn/v/m/2019-10-25/doc-iicezzrr4845672.shtml).\n\n## References\n\n1. [滚蛋吧！肿瘤君 详细资料, 1905电影网](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/2229393/info/)\n2. [中国抗癌电影《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》用乐观赶走悲伤, 新华网 (18 August 2015)](https://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2015-08/18/c_1116295761.htm)\n3. [万达影业出品电影《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》代表中国内地出征奥斯卡, 万达官网 (9 October 2015)](https://www.wanda.cn/2015/2015latest_1009/32059.html)\n4. [《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》定档8月, 人民日报海外版 (3 April 2015)](https://paper.people.com.cn/rmrbhwb/html/2015-04/03/content_1549885.htm)\n5. [《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》破3亿 万达影视票房累计29亿列第一, 万达官网 (20 August 2015)](https://www.wanda.cn/2015/2015latest_0820/31884.html)\n6. [Go Away Mr. Tumor, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/go_away_mr_tumor)\n7. [告别粉丝电影，八月暑期档属于\"文艺\"的侯孝贤？, 第一财经 (31 July 2015)](https://www.yicai.com/news/4662949.html)\n8. [对话微漫画CEO 揭开\"滚蛋吧！肿瘤君\"成功背后的秘密, 新浪 (20 August 2015)](https://news.sina.cn/2015-08-20/detail-ifxhcvrn0034284.d.html?vt=4)\n9. [《滚蛋吧肿瘤君》同名电影：泪点+笑点探讨生死挫折, 人民网 (7 August 2015)](https://culture.people.com.cn/n/2015/0807/c22219-27424335.html)\n10. [《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》上映 换一种方式聊聊人生感悟, 人民网 (14 August 2015)](https://media.people.com.cn/n/2015/0814/c40606-27460450.html)\n11. [《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》编剧袁媛：漫画作品如何改编成大电影？, 界面新闻](https://www.jiemian.com/article/403613.html)\n12. [滚蛋吧！肿瘤君（2015年白百何、吴彦祖主演的喜剧片）, 百度百科](https://bkso.baidu.com/item/%E6%BB%9A%E8%9B%8B%E5%90%A7%EF%BC%81%E8%82%BF%E7%98%A4%E5%90%9B/16848662)\n13. [《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》上映 白百何出演\"癌症斗士\", 人民网转南方日报 (13 August 2015)](https://media.people.com.cn/n/2015/0813/c14677-27456250.html)\n14. [《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》\"申奥\" 导演称不敢媲美经典, 新华网 (14 October 2015)](https://www.xinhuanet.com/world/2015-10/14/c_1116825246.htm)\n15. [《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》大数据显示好口碑, 新浪娱乐 (19 June 2015)](https://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2015-06-19/doc-ifxefurs2608936.shtml)\n16. [电影《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》：情感拿捏略失平衡, 人民日报 (25 August 2015)](https://culture.people.com.cn/n/2015/0825/c87423-27511916.html)\n17. [評《滾蛋吧！腫瘤君》：死是悲劇 何必刻意柔化, 北京青年报 (18 August 2015)](https://culture.people.com.cn/BIG5/n/2015/0818/c22219-27478030.html)\n18. [青岛日报评论版 (29 January 2024)](https://epaper.qingdaonews.com/qdrb/resfile/2024-01-29/10/qdrb2024012910.pdf)\n19. [齐鲁晚报数字报 (1 July 2023)](https://sjb.qlwb.com.cn/qlwb/PDF/20230701/A11.pdf)\n20. [专访｜导演韩延：有什么比生死大事更值得拍电影？, 澎湃新闻](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_23555049?commTag=true)\n21. [舞台剧《滚蛋吧！肿瘤君》发布会在京举行, 动漫星空 (July 2015)](https://acg.gamersky.com/news/201507/621325.shtml)\n22. 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