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Across The Furious Sea
''Across the Furious Sea'' () is a 2023 Chinese crime thriller drama film directed and co-written by Cao Baoping, and starring Huang Bo, Zhou Xun, Zu Feng, Zhang Youhao and Zhou Yiran. The film was adapted from the novel by Lao Huang of the same name published in ''Fiction Monthly''. It is the last instalment of Cao's "Heartburn trilogy" following ''The Dead End'' and ''The Perfect Blue''. The film is also the first live-action domestic film in the history of mainland China's film industry to feature an age rating label mandated by the National Film Administration, in accordance with the Film Industry Promotion Law. It was released theatrically in China on November 25, 2023. Plot Jin ( Huang Bo), a Chinese fishing trawler captain, travels to Kyoto after learning that his daughter, Nana (Zhou Yiran), a student at Kyoto University, has gone missing. Following the discovery of Nana’s body, the autopsy reveals that she was gang-raped and stabbed non-fatally, leading to her dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cao Baoping
Cao Baoping () is a Chinese film director. He has emerged in recent years as a figure in China's "midrange" cinema industry. Some industry watchers, like ''Variety'', have situated directors like Cao between the older fifth generation directors, such as Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou, who have achieved major international and box-office success, and the more "underground" sixth generation directors, like Jia Zhangke and Wang Xiaoshuai. Directorial career Cao Baoping graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1989, and spent most of the 1990s teaching screenwriting at his alma mater. Cao would go on to expand into directing television and television films, co-directing the television film ''Absolute Emotion'' in 2001. His solo debut as director was 2006's '' Trouble Makers'', a satirical black comedy about a village taking revenge on a gang of hoodlums. Due to its rough content, ''Trouble Makers'' faced a host of problems from censors and spent six years in gestation before finally bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |