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19th Busan International Film Festival
The 19th Busan International Film Festival was held in South Korea from October 2 to October 11, 2014, and was hosted by Ken Watanabe and Moon So-ri. A total of 312 films from 79 countries were screened with total attendance of 226,473. Hong Kong director Ann Hui receives the Asian Filmmaker of the Year award. The closing film was ''Gangster Payday''. Program Opening *''Paradise in Service'' - Doze Niu (Taiwan) Gala Presentation *'' Coming Home'' - Zhang Yimou (China) *'' The President'' - Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Georgia/France/United Kingdom/Germany) *''Revivre'' - Im Kwon-taek (South Korea) *''The Golden Era'' - Ann Hui (China/Hong Kong, China) A Window on Asian Cinema *'' Dearest'' - Peter Chan (Hong Kong, China/China) *''Haider'' - Vishal Bhardwaj (India) *''Song of the Phoenix'' - Wu Tianming (China) *''Bwaya'' - Francis Xavier Pasion (Philippines) *''Gentle'' - Le-Van Kiet (Vietnam/United States) *''The Continent'' - Han Han (China/Hong Kong, China) *''Suntali'' - Bhask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paradise In Service
''Paradise in Service'' is a 2014 Taiwanese historical period film directed, co-written and co-produced by Doze Niu. Set in Kinmen in the 1960s and 1970s, the film focuses on Unit 831, a Republic of China Armed Forces military brothel in existence on the island from 1952 to 1990. It was screened in the Panorama section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In 1969, physically fit Taiwan native Lo Pao-tai (Ethan Juan) arrives in Kinmen as a new Republic of China Army conscript. He is selected by Sergeant Major Chang Yun-shan (Chen Jianbin) to be part of the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion (also known as the Frogmen of the R.O.C. Army) for grueling training, where he underperforms. He helps Chang Yun-shan—an illiterate who twenty years ago was kidnapped by the R.O.C. Army from his Shandong village and forced to leave the mainland—and Chang in turn arranges for his transfer to work in the military brothel known as Unit 831. Chung Hua-hsing (Wang Po-chieh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dearest (2014 Film)
''Dearest'' is a 2014 Chinese-language film directed by Peter Chan on kidnapping in China, based on a true story, starring Zhao Wei, Huang Bo, Tong Dawei, Hao Lei, Zhang Yi and Zhang Yuqi. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot Following years of unrelenting search, Tian Wenjun (Huang Bo) and ex-wife Lu Xiaojuan (Hao Lei) finally locate their abducted son in a remote village. After the boy is violently taken away from the village, the abductor's widow Li Hongqin (Zhao Wei) — the boy's foster mother — also loses her foster daughter to a state-owned orphanage in Shenzhen. Heartbroken, Li goes on a lone but determined journey to get her daughter back. Theme songs * "Qin'ai de Xiaohai" (亲爱的小孩; "Dear Child") sung by cast members Huang, Tong, Zhao, Zhang Yi and Hao. It was originally sung by Su Rui as the theme song of the 1985 film '' The Unwritten Law''. * "Mei Yi Ci" (每一次; "Every Time") sung by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Miike
is a Japanese film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has directed over one hundred theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. His films run through a variety of different genres, and range from violent and surrealism, bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly movies. He is a controversial figure in the contemporary Japanese cinema industry, with several of his films being criticised for their extreme graphic violence. Some of his best known films are Audition (1999 film), ''Audition'', Ichi the Killer (film), ''Ichi the Killer'', ''Gozu'', One Missed Call (2003 film), ''One Missed Call'', the ''Dead or Alive (1999 film), Dead or Alive'' trilogy, and various remakes: Graveyard of Honor (2002 film), ''Graveyard of Honor'', ''Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Hara-kiri'' and 13 Assassins (2010 film), ''13 Assassins''. Early life Miike was born in Yao, Osaka, Yao, Osaka Prefecture, to a ''Japanese diaspora#Asia, Nikkei'' family originally from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Over Your Dead Body
is a 2014 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Takashi Miike. It was released on 23 August 2014. Summary A star, Miyuki Goto (Kō Shibasaki) plays Oiwa, the protagonist in a new play based on the ghost story ''Yotsuya Kaidan''. She pulls some strings to get her lover, Kosuke Hasegawa ( Ebizō Ichikawa XI) cast in the play, even though he's a relatively unknown actor. Other performers, Rio Asahina ( Miho Nakanishi) and Jun Suzuki (Hideaki Itō), lust after Miyuki. Offstage, the cast's possessive love and obsessions exist as reality. Trapped between the play and reality, the cast's feelings for each other are amplified. When it becomes clear that love is not meant to be both on and off stage, love turns into a grudge and crosses the blurred line between reality and fantasy. Cast * Ebizō Ichikawa XI as Kousuke Hasegawa/Tamiya Iemon *Kō Shibasaki as Miyuki Goto/Oiwa *Hideaki Itō as Jun Suzuki/Takuetsu * Miho Nakanishi as Rio Asahina/Itō Ume *Maiko as Kayoko Kurata *Tosh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinya Tsukamoto
is a Japanese people, Japanese filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter, Film editing, editor, Film director, director, cinematographer, art director, production designer and actor. With a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad, Tsukamoto is best known for his body horror/Japanese cyberpunk, cyberpunk film ''Tetsuo: The Iron Man'' (1989), which is considered the defining film of the Japanese cyberpunk, Japanese Cyberpunk movement, as well as for its Sequel, companion pieces ''Tetsuo II: Body Hammer'' (1992) and ''Tetsuo: The Bullet Man'' (2009). His other films include ''Tokyo Fist'' (1995), ''Bullet Ballet'' (1998), ''A Snake of June'' (2002), ''Vital (film), Vital'' (2004), ''Kotoko (film), Kotoko'' (2011) and ''Killing (film), Killing'' (2018). In addition to starring in almost all his films, Tsukamoto has also appeared as an actor in films by other directors, including Martin Scorsese, Takashi Miike and Hideaki Anno. He has been cited as an influence on pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fires On The Plain (2014 Film)
is a 2014 Japanese war film written, produced, directed, and starring Shinya Tsukamoto. The film is based on the 1951 anti-war novel '' Fires on the Plain'', which was a semi-autobiographical work loosely based on author Shōhei Ōoka's experience in World War II. The novel was previously adapted in the 1959 film ''Fires on the Plain'' by Kon Ichikawa. The film premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014, and was released to the wider Japanese box office on 25 July 2015. ''Fires on the Plain'' takes place during the final days of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines on the island of Leyte, after the American army had returned. The Japanese army remnants have taken to the jungle after being driven out of the main cities. The Filipinos, after suffering a brutal Japanese occupation, are in little mood to show mercy on their former tormentors, and light the titular bonfires for communication. Japanese soldiers are reduced to little more than bandi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnnie To
Johnnie To Kei-fung (born 22 April 1955) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and film producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a variety of genres, though in the West he is best known for his action and crime movies, which have earned him critical respect and a cult following (which include Quentin Tarantino, who once said that he really loves to watch To's gangster films). To's biggest international successes include ''Breaking News'', ''Election'', ''Election 2'' (a.k.a. ''Triad Election''), ''Exiled'', ''Mad Detective'' and '' Drug War''; these films have appeared in a number of international film festivals, been distributed theatrically in France and the United States, and been widely sold to foreign countries. His films, often made in collaboration with the same group of actors, screenwriters and cinematographers, frequently explore themes of friendship, fate and the changing face of Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2
''Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2'' is a 2014 romantic comedy film directed by Johnnie To. A sequel to the 2011 film ''Don't Go Breaking My Heart'', it stars returning cast members Louis Koo, Gao Yuanyuan and Daniel Wu alongside new cast members Vic Chou and Miriam Yeung. It was screened at the Special Presentations section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. It was released in China on 11 November and in Hong Kong on 13 November 2014. Cast * Louis Koo as Sean Cheung * Miriam Yeung as Yang Yang Yang * Gao Yuanyuan as Cheng Zixin * Vic Chou as Paul Cheng * Daniel Wu as Fang Qihong * Lam Suet as John * Lo Hoi-pang as Security guard * Liu Yuhong as Zixin's grandmother * Yan Jingyao as Zixin's mother * Wang Zhihua as Qihong's father * Du Yachun as Qihong's mother Production ''Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2'' was written by Wai Ka-fai and Ryker Chan and Yu Xi. Yu Xi had previously joined To’s on his films ''Blind Detective'' and ''Drug War'' as a screenwriter. Release ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saman Salur
Saman Salur (born 1976) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. He graduated from Soore University with a Bachelor of Film and Television in Directing. He is known for directing and writing the comedy feature 'A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral' 2006 winning Golden Leopard and Special Prize of the Jury at Locarno International Film Festival, a special Jury from Sofia International Film Festival and a Montgolfiere from the Three Continents Festival. His first documentary 'Residents of Silent Land' won award in Molodist International Film Festival, Molodist Kiev International Film Festival. His last movie "We will say Amen" has been banned for 4 years till 2016. Filmography * ''The Wind Will Comb Your Tresses'', 2002 (Short Film) * ''IT’S A SONY'', 2002 (Documentary) * ''The Guilty'', 2002 (Cinematography) * ''From Land of Silence'', 2004 * ''A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral'', 2006 * ''Aramesh ba Diazepam 10'', 2005 (Documentary) * ''Lonely Tune of Tehran'', 2008 * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suntali
''Suntali'' ( ne, सुन्तली) is a 2014 Nepali black-comedy film, directed by Bhaskar Dhungana. The film is produced by Bhaskar Dhungana, Jaya Shah, and Prachanda Shrestha under the banner of Blue Poppy Films. It stars Priyanka Karki, Karma Shakya, Sushma Karki, Bipin Karki, and Pramod Agrahari. The film follows Suntali's relationship with Sundar. Plot A matriarch of a village in Nepal, is arranging his son Sundar's wedding. Suntali, Sundar's old friend, comes to the village, and she rekindle their relationship. The matriarch starts to plans to destroy her. Cast * Priyanka Karki as Suntali * Karma Shakya as Sundar * Sushma Karki as Buxom Babe * Bipin Karki as Bidur * Pramod Agrahari as Bajrang * Madan Krishna Shrestha as narrator Release and reception ''Suntali'' premiered at the 19th Busan International Film Festival in October 2014 on the Window on Asian Cinema category. Abhimanyu Dixit of ''The Kathmandu Post'' wrote, "Dhungana proved that he was a profici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Han Han
Han Han (born September 23, 1982) is a Chinese best-selling author, professional rally driver, singer, creator of ''Party'', One (App magazine) and China's most popular blogger. He has published seven novels to date, and is represented by the Hong Kong-based Peony Literary Agency. He is also involved in music production. In May 2010, Han Han was named one of the most influential people in the world by ''Time'' magazine. In September 2010, British magazine ''New Statesman'' listed Han Han at 48th place in the list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010". In June 2010, Han Han was interviewed by CNN as China's rebel writer who has become the unofficial voice for his generation. Early life and increasing prominence Han's first essay, ''Unhappy Days'' (不快乐地混日子), was published when he was attending junior middle school. He was admitted to Shanghai's Song Jiang No. 2 High School (上海市松江二中) based on his sporting achievements. During his first year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Continent (film)
''The Continent'' () is a 2014 Chinese road-trip comedy film written directed by Han Han. The film was released on July 24, 2014. This movie was produced by Beijing Lorry Ltd, Hangzhou Guomai Media Ltd, and Bona Film Group Ltd. Han Han, a famous youth novelist in mainland China, served as both this movie's screenwriter and director. The film stars William Feng and Bolin Chen in the leading roles. Production began on February 14, 2014, and wrapped on May 26, 2014. The production team scouted from five locations for filming, which included Shanghai, Xichang, Chifeng, Mount Putuo in Zhoushan, and Dongji Island. One of the leads, William Feng, was injured when the filming process was nearly finished. The film premiered in mainland China on July 24, 2014. Synopsis The movie follows three young men, without much life experience, who live on an island located in the East China Sea. The three hatch a plan to journey across the Chinese mainland, and along the way, documents their exper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
