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Golden Horse Awards 2009 - The Celebration of Three Filmdoms
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November 30, 2009 |
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Not surprising at all, in the Taiwan hosted
awards, the grand winner is Taiwanese director Leon Dai, whose low
budget drama No Pudeo Vivir Sin Ti, triumphs in three
heaviest categories, Best Feature Film, Best Director and Best
Original Screenplay (by Leon Dai and Chen Wen-Pin). Hero of the film
is a single father, whose life suddenly turned up-side-down when he
was told he did not have the custody of his daughter he has been
raising since her birth. Legally, he had to give his daughter to a
man, who once married to the single father's ex-girlfriend, the
birth mother of his daughter. Being kicked back-in-forth by various
government entities, he finally had enough and decided to jump off
from an overpass bridge with his daughter. The story is not
fictional but is based on a real incident once covered live by at
least 6 local TV stations.
Mainland Chinese war comedy Cow grabbed
two awards. Comedian actor Huang Bo is named the Best Leading Actor,
sharing it with Hong Kong actor Nick Cheung from The Beast
Stalker, a made-in-Hong Kong. Cow's director Guan Hu is awarded
for the adaptation script he wrote. Set during the WWII, Cow tells a
villager unwillingly assigned to take care of a precious Dutch milk
cow on the even of a Japanese attack.
Mainland director Chen Kaige's biopic of Beijing
opera artist Mei Lanfang has failed to match the same
achievement he did with Farewell My Concubine. However,
performance of the cast still deserves a couple awards. Wang Xueqi,
who played an aging Beijing opera player, is named the Best
Supporting Actor, and Yu Shaoqun, portrayed the teenage Mei Lanfang
wins the Best New Performer award.
Mainland Chinese actress Li Bingbing is voted as
the Best Leading Actress for her performance in The Message,
a WWII espionage thriller, jointly produced by; and the title of
Best Supporting Actress goes to Hong Kong actress Wai Ying-Hung, for
her part in At the End of Daybreak, a dark family drama
jointly produced by Malaysia, Hong Kong and South Korea.
Taiwan director Tsai Ming-Ling's ambitious
Face, only wins in two technical categories, Best Art Direction
and Best Makeup & Costume Design. What do you expect? The musical
was shot in The Louvre and the movie within the movie is about the
story of Salome.
The Best Visual Effect award goes to mainland
fast pace multi-storyline comedy Crazy Racer. The jury was
probably impressed by the slow-mo long shot of a gas explosion
appeared toward the end of the movie.
Sammo Hung and Leung Siu-Hung won the Best Action
Choreography for their contribution to Ip Man.
The fight sequences in the made-in-Hong Kong film are a virtual
adrenalin rollercoaster.
For music categories, the Best Original Film
Score goes to mainland thriller The Equation of Love and Death;
and the Best Original Film Song is awarded to another mainland-made
family drama For My Heart.
The Best Cinematography award is given to Cao Yu,
for his camera work in black and white Nanjing/Nanking Massacre
drama City of Life and Death.
Hong Kong made documentary KJ: Music and Life
wins in every category, in which it is nominated, The Best
Documentary, the Best Film Editing, and the Best Sound Effect. It
tells the story of KJ, a talent young pianist with a troubled mind.
Last but not least, the Best Short Film award is
granted to Taiwan made Sleeping with Her, tells a Indian girl
who is looking after her overly-demanding mother-in-law.
When announced in early October, a movie titled
Like a Dream surprised everyone by receiving 9 nominations,
more than any other film has received. At the award ceremony held
last night in Taipei, the movie once again surprised everyone by not
wining one single award.
Complete winners' List:
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Best Feature
Film |
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No Pudeo Vivir Sin Ti |
Taiwan |
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Other Nominees: |
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Cow |
China |
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Crazy Racer |
China |
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Face |
Taiwan
/ France / Belgium / Netherlands |
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Like A Dream |
China
/ Taiwan / Hong Kong / Australia |
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Best Short Film |
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Sleeping with Her |
Taiwan |
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Other Nominees: |
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Invisible Loneliness |
Taiwan |
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Ending Cut |
Taiwan |
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Best
Documentary |
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KJ: Music and Life |
Hong Kong |
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Other Nominees: |
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Baseball Boys |
Taiwan |
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Let The Wind Carry Me |
Taiwan |
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Best Animation:
(Absent) |
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Best Director |
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Leon DAI |
No Pudeo Vivir Sin Ti (Taiwan) |
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Other Nominees: |
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GUAN Hu |
Cow (China) |
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TSAI Ming-Liang |
Face (Taiwan
/ France / Belgium / Netherlands) |
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Clara LAW |
Like A Dream
(China
/ Taiwan / Hong Kong / Australia) |
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Best Leading
Actor |
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Nick CHEUNG |
The Beast Stalker (Hong Kong) |
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HUANG Bo |
Cow
(China) |
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Other Nominees: |
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CHEN Wen-Pin |
No Pudeo Vivir Sin Ti
(Taiwan) |
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Daniel WW |
Like A Dream
(China
/ Taiwan / Hong Kong / Australia) |
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Best Leading
Actress |
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LI Bingbing |
The Message
(China) |
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Other Nominees: |
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Sandrine PINNA |
YANG YANG
(Taiwan) |
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YUAN Quan |
Like A Dream
(China
/ Taiwan / Hong Kong / Australia) |
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ZHOU Xun |
The Message
(China) |
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Best Supporting
Actor |
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WANG Xueqi |
Forever Enthralled (China / Hong Kong / Taiwan) |
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Other Nominees: |
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CAI Zhen-Nan |
Ending Cut
(Taiwan) |
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HUANG Chien-Wei |
YANG YANG
(Taiwan) |
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ZHANG Hayu |
The Equation of Love and Death (China / Hong Kong) |
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Best Supporting
Actress |
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WAI Ying-Hung |
At the End of Daybreak (Malaysia / Hong Kong / South Korea) |
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Other Nominees: |
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LIOU Yiin-Shang |
Sleeping with Her (Taiwan) |
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LU Yi-Ching |
A Place of One's Own
(Taiwan) |
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ZHANG Ziyi |
Forever Enthralled
(China / Hong Kong / Taiwan) |
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Best New
Performer |
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YU Shaoqun |
Forever Enthralled
(China / Hong Kong / Taiwan) |
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Other Nominees: |
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CHEN Wen-Pin |
No Pudeo Vivir Sin Ti
(Taiwan) |
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HER Sy-Huoy |
YANG YANG
(Taiwan) |
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Michelle CHEN |
Hear Me (Taiwan) |
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Best Original
Screenplay |
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Leon DAI, CHEN Wen-Pin |
No Pudeo Vivir Sin Ti
(Taiwan) (Taiwan) |
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Other Nominees: |
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CUI Siwei, XING Aina, WANG Hongwei, WANG Yao, ZHOU
Zhiyong, YUE Xiaojun, ZHANG Cheng |
Crazy Racer (China) |
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CHENG Wen-Tang, CHENG Jin-Fen, CHANG I-Feng |
Tears (Taiwan) |
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Eddie FONG, Clara LAW |
Like A Dream
(China
/ Taiwan / Hong Kong / Australia) |
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Best Screenplay
Adaptation |
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GUAN Hu |
Cow
(China) |
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Other Nominees: |
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CHEN Kuo-Fu, ZHANG Jialu |
The Message
(China) |
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GU Xiaoni |
Death Dowry (China) |
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Best
Cinematography |
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CAO Yu |
City of Life and Death (China / Hong Kong) |
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Other Nominees: |
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SONG Xiaofei |
Cow
(China) |
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Sion MICHEL (A.C.S) |
Like A Dream
(China
/ Taiwan / Hong Kong / Australia) |
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ZHAO Xiaoshi |
Wheat (China) |
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Best Visual
Effects |
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WANG Jianxiong, Jimmy CHEN, LI Liping |
Crazy Racer
(China) |
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Other Nominees: |
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JIANG Weibin, LEI Zaixing |
Da Ming Palace (China) |
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Don MA |
City of Life and Death
(China / Hong Kong) |
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HU Xuan, XIAO Yang |
The Message
(China) |
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Best Art
Direction |
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LEE Tian-Jue, Patrick DECHESNE, Alain-Pascal HOUSIAUX |
Face
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/ France / Belgium / Netherlands) |
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Other Nominees: |
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HUATa-Hua |
No Pudeo Vivir Sin Ti
(Taiwan) |
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YEE Chung-Man, Penny TSAI |
Like A Dream
(China
/ Taiwan / Hong Kong / Australia) |
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SHI Haiying, YANG Haoyu |
The Message
(China) |
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Best Makeup &
Costume Design |
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Christian LACROIX, WANG Chia-Hui, Anne DUNSFORD |
Face
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/ France / Belgium / Netherlands) |
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Other Nominees: |
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Emi WADA |
The Warrior and the Wolf (China / Hong Kong / Japan / Singapore
/ USA) |
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CHEN Tongxun |
Forever Enthralled
(China / Hong Kong / Taiwan) |
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Tim
YIP |
The Message
(China) |
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Best Action
Choreography |
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Sammo HUNG, Leung Siu-Hung |
Ip Man (Hong Kong / China) |
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Other Nominees: |
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TUNG Wai, Bruce LAW |
The Beast Stalker
(Hong Kong) |
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CHEN Guanlong, QIN Haiqiang |
Cow
(China) |
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Philippe DECOUFLÉ |
Face
(Taiwan
/ France / Belgium / Netherlands) |
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Best Original
Film Score |
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DOU Wei, BI Xiaodi |
The Equation of Love and Death
(China / Hong Kong) |
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Other Nominees: |
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LIM Giong |
YANG YANG (Taiwan) |
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Paul GRABOWSKY |
Like A Dream
(China
/ Taiwan / Hong Kong / Australia) |
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LIU Xing |
Wheat (China) |
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Best Original
Film Song |
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For My Heart
from: "Death Dowry (China)" |
Lyric: ZENG Yan; composer: ZENG Yan; performer: TAO Hong, TAN
Weiwei |
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Other Nominees: |
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Sayonala
from: "Tears (Taiwan)" |
Lyric: YANG Ta-Cheng, ENNO; composer: ENNO; performer: ENNO |
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The Flow of Clouds
from: "Young Spirit of a Taiwanese Opera Singer
(Taiwan)" |
Lyric: PENG Zhang-zhan; composer: PENG Zhang-zhan; performer: Christine SHU |
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Best Film
Editing |
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CHEUNG
King-Wai |
KJ: Music and Life (Hong Kong) |
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Other Nominees: |
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Leon DAI |
No Pudeo Vivir Sin Ti
(Taiwan) |
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KONG Jinlei |
Cow
(China) |
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ZHANG Yifan, DU Yuan,TANG Hua |
Crazy Racer
(China) |
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Best Sound
Effect |
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CHEUNG King Wai |
KJ: Music and Life
(Hong Kong) |
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Other Nominees: |
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TU Duu-Chih |
YANG YANG (Taiwan) |
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TU Duu-Chih |
Like A Dream
(China
/ Taiwan / Hong Kong / Australia) |
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WANG Changrui |
Wheat (China) |
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The Outstanding
Taiwanese Film of the Year |
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No Pudeo Vivir Sin Ti |
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Other Nominees: |
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Let The Wind Carry Me |
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YANG YANG |
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FIPRESCI Award |
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The Outstanding
Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year |
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LEE Lung-Yue (lighting expert, cinematographer, actor) |
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Other Nominees: |
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Jack KAO (actor) |
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Leon DAI (director, film writer) |
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Lifetime
Achievement Award |
Special
Contribution Award |
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MING Ji
(producer) |
George WANG
(actor, producer) |
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Shots from the Set of John Woo
Produced, Michelle Yeoh Stared JIAN YU JIANG HU
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November 30,
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Production of martial-art film Jian Yu
Jiang Hu (no official English title) is now being done in
Shanghai. Written and directed by Taiwanese director Su Chao-Bin
(Silk, Better than Sex), it tells a retired female
killer (Michelle Yeoh) lives in a low profile life at a small
town with her husband a postman (Korean actor Jung Woo-sung).
Then one day the assassin gang leader The Wheel Lord (mainland
Chinese actor Wang Xueqi) shows up. He is after the remains of
master Bodhidharma, which is in the possession of the retiree.
Producer Terence Chang said the movie was a
combination of Face Off and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and John Woo also
claimed the selling point of the movie was ¡¡ãwuxia plus suspense¡¡À.
The cast also includes Kelly Lin, Barbie Hsu,
Shawn Yue and Chang Chen.
The producers team is consisted with John Woo,
Terence Chang, Michelle Yeoh and David Tang.
The costume is designed by Emi Wada (House of
Flying Daggers, Hero, The Storm Riders, The
Bride with White Hair, Ran).
This is a joint production of Beijing-based
Galloping Horse Film & TV Production, John Woo and Terence Chang¡¯s
Lion Rock Productions and another Beijing-based studio Stellar
Entertainment.
The
Chinese title can literally be translated to "Sword, Rain, River,
Lake" or "Sword, Rain,
Jianghu".
More shots from the set
Teaser poster
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Wong Kar-Wai's THE GRAND MASTER
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After being in preparation for many many years, Wong Kar-Wai finally
began shooting his long-overdue
The Grand Master. The movie is about the life
story of martial-artist Ip Man, who has been portrayed recently by
Donnie Yen in Ip Man and Ip Man sequel. According to a Chinese
newspaper, the cast include Leung Chiu-Wai (playing Ip Man),
Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen. The shooting will be done from December
12 to April 18 of next year, in
Chikan Studio of China's
Kaiping City in Guangdong Province. That's all we know so far.
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BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS Five Minute Trailer
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November 27,
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Opening This
Week: November
21 - 27, 2009
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November 27,
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Mulan |
Love At Seventh Sight |
Summer Times |
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Starlight Group, Shanghai Film Group, Starlight International Media
Group, Hunan TV & Broadcast Intermedialy Co., LTD., Poly-Bona Film
Publishing Company, Kun Peng Publishing Company Limited, Jia Hong Rui
Xiang (Beijing) Entertainment Distribution Co., Ltd., Sense-Jinlin
International Movie & TV Culture Co., Ltd., Idea Shine Company Limited. |
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Hua
Mulan, a young
girl disguises as a man to join the army, to substitute his father,
listed for drafting on the even of a foreign invasion.
In Love At Seventh
Sight , a
jobless young sound recordist takes a road trip with a beautiful
young girl, who drives an RV. The trip is sweet and when the young
man realize he is in love with her, he discovers the girl¡¯s life is
about to end soon.
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Summer Times
tells a young man who falls in love with a young pianist vacationing
in his little island.
Other new movies opened
this week:
China:
District 9
(USA / New Zealand)
G-Force
(USA)
In the Name of the King:
A Dungeon Siege Tale
(Germany / Canada / USA)
Twilight
(USA)
Hong Kong:
Hear Me
(Taiwan)
20th Century Boys:
Chapter 2 - The Last Hope
(Japan)
Julie & Julia
(USA)
Sorority Row
(USA)
Taiwan:
Case 39
(USA / Canada)
District 9
(USA / New Zealand)
The 4th Kind
(USA)
Ninja Assassin
(USA / Germany)
Das Weisse Band - Eine
Deutsche Kindergeschichte / The White Ribbon
(Austria / Germany / France / Italy)
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TRIPLE TAP, New Thriller from Hong Kong Director
Yee Tung-Shing
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November 24,
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L to R: Director Yee Tung-Shing, Chapman To,
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The thriller tells police officer Chung, just took the second place
at a target shooting contest, befriends the grand winner, Kwan, a
mutual fund manager. Kwan runs into a robbery and shoots four
robbers to death, the action subsequently made him famous. However
some evident Chung found makes him believe the robber was actually
plotted by Kwan.
This is the latest from writer director Yee Tung-Shing ( Shinjuku
Incident,
Protì¦gì¦,
One Nite in Mongkok).
The cast include Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Li Bingbing, Charlene Choi,
Alex Fong, You Yong, Liu Kai-Chi and Chapman To.
A press conference was held yesterday in Hong Kong to mark the end
of the principal shooting.
Click
here and
here for more
shots from the press conference.
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Yuen Woo-Ping Wants to Re-Adapt The Smiling, Proud
Wanderer, which Was Made to the SWORDSMAN Series by Tsui Hark in the
1990s
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According to Hong Kong press, director and action director Yuen
Woo-Ping is planning to adapt Louis Cha's wuxia novel
The Smiling, Proud Wanderer
to the big screen, with money from the mainland Chinese studios.
First published in Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao in 1967,
The Smiling, Proud Wanderer was made to
Swordsman (1990)
and
Swordsman II
(1992) by director Tsui Hark and the adaptation has never been
approved by Cha.
For the cast, Yuen Woo-Ping would like to cast Takeshi Kaneshiro as
the lead character Linghu Chong (Ling Wu Chung), Zhou Xun as the
female lead character Ren Yingying (Ren Ying Ying) and Jay Chou as
the villain Dongfang Bubai (Asia the Invincible). Both Zhou Xun and
Jay Chou were worked in Yuen Woo-Ping directed
True Legend (Su
Qi-Er), scheduled for a theatrical release in east Asia February
2010.
Shooting is expected to begin in Beijing right after the coming
Chinese New Year (February 2010).
Yuen also has a plan of making a ghost story, somewhat similar to
A Chinese Ghost Story
(1987), with Shu Qi, Donnie Yen and Daniel Wu.
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Taiwanese Director and Film Writer Ting
Shan-hsi Dies at 74
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November 23,
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Ting Shan-hsi
was born in Chinese city of Qingdao (Tsingtao) in 1936. He started
his career as a screen writer and later made himself a director.
Have been worked for studios in Taiwan and Hong Kong from the 1960s
to the 1990s, he is better known for three Taiwan-made historical
drama:
The Everlasting Glory
(1975), a biopic of general Cheng Tsu-chung who died during a battle
against the Japanese invaders in 1940,
800 Heroes
(1976), about a few hundreds Chinese soldiers defending a Shanghai
warehouse against Japanese troops in 1937, and
The Battle for the Republic of China
(1981), retelling the story of Wuchang Revolt in November 11 of
1911, which triggered the total collapse of Chinese Qing Empire and
the founding of the Chinese republic.
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Opening This
Week: November
14 - 20, 2009
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November
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The Brothers |
Panda Express |
To Live and Die in Mongkok |
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Huo Xing Bao Bei Zhi
Huo Xing Mei Shi |
Wild Horse from Shangri-La |
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Images: China
Film Group Corp., Shi Lin Yuan Entertainment Distribution Co., Ltd., Joy
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Da An Films, Mongo Films, Poly-Bona Film Distribution
Co., Ltd., Mega-Vision Pictures (MVP),
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The Brothers
tells two robbers running into a little village and the fate of
theirs and the villagers are being changed forever.
Huo Xing Bao Bei Zhi
Huo Xing Mei Shi
is about a guy, who lost his wife, adopts a boy as his son, who
turns out to be a naughty boy from Mars, with some superpower no one
on earth has ever seen...
In
Panda Express, a flying
dagger vendor is mistakenly contracted to ship a dancing panda to
the capital city.
To Live and Die in Mongkok
is about a mentally ill man, released from prison after serving 30
year, whose action out of sympathy subsequently gets him hunted by
the gang and the authority.
Wild Horse from
Shangri-La
tells a young Tibetan herdsman's amazing 800 kilometer run, an
effort save the life of his little sister.
Other new movies opened
this week:
China:
none
Hong Kong:
A Christmas Carol
(USA)
Mother
(South Korea)
Pandorum
(USA)
Taiwan:
(500) Days of Summer
(USA)
Bottle Shock
(USA)
Exit Speed
(USA)
Phobia 2
(Thailand)
Le Secret
(France)
Tengri: Blude Heavens
(Germany / France / Kyrgyzstan)
The Triumphant Return of General Rouge
(Japan)
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Zhang Yimou Thinks about THIRTEEN GIRLS OF JINLING
and May Hug THE HAWTHORN TREE
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November 18,
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Zhang Yimou
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A Simple Noodle Story,
formerly Known as
Amazing Tales: Three Guns.
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News has comes out indicating Chinese director Zhang Yimou will
start filming
Thirteen Girls of Jinling
(literal title) by the end of 2010.
The film will be based on woman writer Yan Geling's same title
novel. Story of the novel is set in December 1937, when Japanese
troops broke into the city of Nanjing/Nanking (nicknamed "Jinling",
i.e. "Tomb of Gold"). A church run by several foreign priests
provides protection for
6 wounded Chinese soldiers and many
school girls, both were hunted by the ruthless Japanese.
There are 13 prostitutes, who were also hiding under the same roof,
for protecting the life of the school girls and soldiers,
volunteered to join Japanese Christmas party as "comfort women". In
fact, they are going for a revenge.
The story is inspired by several real stories occurred during the
infamous Nanking Massacre. Zhang Yimou put the film project on hold
earlier this year, on the even of the release of City of Life and
Death, another movie which has a minor plot similar to the story of
Thirteen Girls of Jinling.
Instead, he made
A Simple Noodle Story,
formerly Known as
Amazing Tales: Three Guns.
Zhang is also assessing the possibility of adopting popular book
The Love of a Hawthorn Tree, published two years ago in China.
Set in 1974/1975, when the destructive Culture Revolution of China
was approaching the end, the book tells what is called "the purist
love story" with a high school girl sent to the countryside and a
young man working as a mineral explorer. If going into production,
The
Hawthorn Tree
will be Zhang's first love story since
The Road Home, released in
1999.
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Poster and Rap Alert: A SIMPLE NOODLE STORY,
formerly Known as AMAZING TALES: THREE GUNS
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Two Chinese posters of Zhang Yimou's
A Simple Noodle Story,
formerly known as
Amazing Tales: Three Guns,
are released today.
A video clip of the theme song, titled "I'm just a fairytale" was
released last week. It is performed by the lead actor, Xiao Shen
Yang, with director Zhang Yimou as the guest performer, rapping in
his native Shannxi dialect.
click here
A
Simple Noodle Story
is based on Coen brothers' 1984 thriller
Blood Simple.
The story begins with a Silk Road noodle shop owner hiring a soldier
to kill his wife, whom he suspects having an affair with a waiter.
The comedy thriller will be released in China by December 11 this
year and Sony Pictures Classics will release it in North
America with the date to be determined.
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Poster Alert:
THE STORM WARRIORS Character Posters
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November 18,
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Aaron
Kown
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Cloud |
Ekin Cheng
as Wind |
Tang Yan
as Chu Chu |
Simon Yam
as Lord Godless |
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In this sequel to 1998's The Storm Riders, two warriors Wind and
Cloud are facing a new enemy, Lord Godless invading from the east.
The fantasy actioner will be released in east Asia this December.
More posters:
Nicholas Tse as Heart
Charlene Choi as Second Dream
Kenny Ho as Nameless
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Donnie Yen's Next Big Thing, THE LEGEND OF CHEN ZHEN Now in
Production
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November 18,
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The cast: (L to R) Donnie
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The major cast and crew. |
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Chen Zhen is a fictional character played first by Bruce Lee in
Fist of Fury
(1972), then by Jet Li in
Fist of Legend
(1984), and by Donnie Yen in TV series
Fist of Legend
(1996). Now after 13 years, Donnie Yen reprises this role in a brand
new movie titled
The Legend of Chen Zhen,
formerly known as "Chen Zhen the Nocturnal Hero".
A press conference held last Sunday announced the official start
of the principal shooting.
Gordon Chan, the director and co-writer of Jet Li's
Fist of Legend, penned the
script of the new movie with Cheung Chi-Sing and would co-produce it
Lau Wai-Keung, who is also the director.
Nothing about the plot has been made public, except Donnie Yen's
character Chen Zhen will be a patriotic who has a mission to save a
city. The cast include Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Zhou Yang, Huo Siyan,
Huang Bo and Anthony Wong (as a gang boss, the villain).
Production is taking
place currently in Shanghai. The film is produced by Beijing-based
Enlight Pictures, Hong Kong studio
Media Asia Films
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Poster Alert: Many Faces of Chow Yun-Fat's
CONFUCIUS
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November 13, 2009 |
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Click
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all 19 teaser posters.
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Opening This
Week: November
7 - 13, 2009
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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November 13, 2009 |
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Radish Warrior |
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Image: Henan Film and TV Production Group, Henan Film Studio. |
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With the world allegedly
to end with
2012, no new
domestic productions are being released this week either in China,
or in Hong Kong, or in Taiwan.
Eh,
not really. This is one homemade film released on Wednesday two days
before
2012.
Ren Ming Ru Tian
(literal: Nothing Is More Precious than Human Life ) tells a true
story of how 69 miners were saved after the coal mine they worked at
was accidentally flooded.
Other new movies opened
this week:
China:
2012
(USA / Canada)
Hong Kong:
2012
(USA / Canada)
Amelia
(USA / Canada)
Comme les Autres
/
Baby Love
(France)
Pandemic
(Japan)
Taiwan:
2012
(USA / Canada)
Antichrist
(Denmark / Germany / France / Sweden / Italy / Poland)
Hatta Yoichi
(Japan)
Rage
(UK / USA)
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Casting Call: EMPIRES OF THE DEEP,
Caucasian Men and Women, In Case You Are in China (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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November 11, 2009 |
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Image: Emagine
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Movie title: Empires of the Deep (Hollywood production)
Duration: Four Months (Nov. 20 2009 - Mar. 19, 2010)
Filming locations: Zhuozhou (Hebei Province) or Huairou (Beijing) +
Fujian Province (all in China)
Salary / Payment: Chinese yuan 8000/month
Accommodation and transportation fees (one-way/return) will be
provided.
Number of extras:
Male (10) + Female (15)
Requirements: (according to the screenplay)
Height:
Male: 1.85 M (at least)
Female£º1.75M (at least)
Speaking language:
English (interpreters will be provided by the production)
Ethnic:
Caucasian: European / North American origins are preferable
Deadline for submitting your application:
Nov
18, 2009
Contact:
Mr.
Wang Guowei
E-mail: guoweiwang@vip.163.com
Cell: 13901332327
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Poster Alert: China Version of 14 BLADES
Posters
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November 11, 2009 |
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Donnie Yen
as "Green Dragon" |
Zhao Wei
as "Qiao Hua" |
Wu Chun
as "The Judge" |
Kate Tsui
as "Tuo Tuo" |
Qi Yuwu
as "Xuan Wu" |
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Images: Visualizer Film Productions,
Shanghai Film Group, Western Movie Group, Mediacorp Raintree
Pictures, Desen International Media Co., Ltd. |
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Click
here for full size of
all five posters.
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Poster Alert: Taiwan Version of THE
TREASURE HUNTER Posters
(Sina.com) |
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November 11, 2009 |
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In
this Taiwan-made actioner set in China's Inner Mongolia, Taiwanese
singer actor Jay Chou, Kato in The Green Hornet
remake, plays an Indiana Jones type person, who is accidentally
received a treasure map, which leads him to the desert. Teams up
with a beautiful girl (Lin Chiling) and an archeologist (Chen
Daoming), his mission is to reach the buried lost city before an
international criminal organization, The Company, does.
Top-left: Jay Chou,
Top-right: Lin Chiling,
Bottom-left: Chen Daoming,
Bottom-right: Eric Tsang.
Click
here for full size of
all four posters.
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IP MAN Prequel in
Production without Donnie Yen
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November 9, 2009 |
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(L to R): To Yu-Hung, producer Sin Kwok-Lam, Ip Chun and Rose
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The success of
Ip Man
not only pushed for a sequel but also inspired a prequel. A
ceremony held last Saturday in Hong Kong marked the official
beginning of Ip Man¡¯s prequel, as titled ãA
Prequel to Ip ManÀ.
Interestingly enough, some key persons of
Ip Man
and
Ip Man 2, Donnie Yen,
director Wilson Yip and action director Sammo Hung, are not
involved in the production of the prequel.
The prequel will chronicle Yip Man¡¯s life from his childhood to
his youthhood. According to the script, the movie will feature
fights with Wing Chun (the martial-art style of Ip Man) against
boxing, Karate, western sword, and in a highlight, Wing Chun
against Wing Chun.
The prequel is produced by Sin Kowk-Lam, a disciple of Wing Chun
and one of the producers of the original
Ip Man. The
action will be designed by Leung Siu-Hung, worked as the action
coordinator of the original
Ip Man, and the cast
include To Yu-Hung (played a minor role in the original and
playing Ip Man this time), Rose Chan, Huang Yi, Xu Jiao, Cheung
King-Hin, Yuen Biao, Fan Siu-Wong (played a supporting role in
Ip Man) and Ip Chun (Ip
Man¡¯s son, will be playing Ip Man¡¯s second master Leung Jan).
The prequel will be released in Asia next May, ahead of the
release of
Ip Man 2, which has
just been wrapped.
Click
here and
here for more shots from
the ceremony.
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Stills: LET THE BULLETS FLY
(MonkeyPeaches Exclusive) |
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November 6, 2009 |
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mage: Bu Yi Le Hu Film Company, Emperor Motion Pictures |
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Set in China during the warring 1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang
(Jiang Wen) 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 (Chow Yun-Fat)
as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.
The filming this comic western, by actor director Jiang Wen, is
currently underway outside of Beijing. The cast also include Ge You,
Hu Jun, Liao Fan, Shao Bing, Zhang Mo, Chen Kun, Carina Lau, Zhou
Yun and Miao Pu.
The first batch of officially released stills are showing a con
couple played by Ge You and Carina Lau, whose role was previously
offered to Maggie Cheung, who turned it down fearing the living
condition of the location might be too harsh for her.
Click here for more stills
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Poster Alert: BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS
(Sina.com) |
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November 6, 2009 |
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Image: Cinema Popular, China Film Group Corp., Shanghai Media &
Entertainment Group, Jiangshu Broadcasting System, Nanfang Radio, Film
and TV Media Group, Crown Elegance Media Co., Ltd., Poly-Huayi Media of
China, EE-MEDIA, Poly-Bona Film Publishing Co., Ltd. |
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October 15th of 1906, Hong Kong, the future founding father of
Chinese republic, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen¡¯s is hunted by a team of
professional assassins hired by the Chinese empirical
government. A group of underdog bodyguards are hired to protect
Sun's life.
Cast include: Donnie Yen, Wang Xueqi, Leung Ka-Fai, Nicholas
Tse, Hu Jun, Eric Tsang, Li Yuchun, Fan Bingbing, Mengke Bateer,
Zhou Yun, Wang Bo-Chieh, Li Kang, Leon Lai, Simon Yam, Cung Le,
Michelle Reis (Michelle Lee), Xingyu and Philip Ng.
Directed by Teddy Chan, produced by Peter Chan and Huang
Jianxin, written by Chun Tin-Nam, Jame Yuen, Guo Junli, Chan Wai
and Wu Bing.
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Poster Alert: TREASURE HUNTER
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November 6, 2009 |
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Taiwanese singer actor Jay Chou, Kato in
The Green Hornet
remake, plays an Indiana Jones type person, who is accidentally
received a treasure map, which leads him to the desert. Teams up
with a beautiful girl (Lin Chiling) and an archeologist (Chen
Daoming), his mission is to reach the buried lost city before an
international criminal organization, The Company, does.
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Poster Alert: THE BROTHERS
(Sina.com) |
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November 6,
2009 |
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Images: Stellar Mega Media, Shanghai Film Group Corporation, Beijing
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Set during the Tang Dynasty (618 ¨¬C 906), story of The Robbers
(Chinese literal title: My Tang Dynasty Brother) tells two
robbers, carrying a great deal of treasures, run to a little
village called Bitter Bamboo Forest. To save a village girl,
they kill a few army soldiers. They villagers want to capture
the robbers and send them to the army, and when the army
arrives, the entire village is suddenly in danger.
The cast include Hu Jun and Jiang Wu as the two robbers, Wang
Xiao as the village girl, Lee Lichun as the village master, and
Yu Xiaolei as a woman butcher. The film is written and directed
by Yang Shupeng.
Click the image for another poster.
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Opening This
Week: October
31 - November 6, 2009
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