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Asian Film Award For Best Director
Asian Film Award for Best Director has been awarded annually since 2007 by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society. Winners and nominees 2000s 2010s 2020s References External links Official site {{Asian Film Awards Asian Film Awards Awards for best director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Film Awards
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Asian may refer to: * Items from or related to the continent of Asia: ** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia ** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia ** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asia ** Asian (cat), a cat breed similar to the Burmese but in a range of different coat colors and patterns * Asii (also Asiani), a historic Central Asian ethnic group mentioned in Roman-era writings * Asian option, a type of option contract in finance * Asyan, a village in Iran See also * * * East Asia * South Asia * Southeast Asia * Asiatic (other) Asiatic refers to something related to Asia. Asiatic may also refer to: * Asiatic style, a term in ancient stylistic criticism associated with Greek writers of Asia Minor * In the context of Ancient Egypt, beyond the borders of Egypt and the cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Asian Film Awards
The 2nd Asian Film Awards were given in a ceremony on 17 March 2008 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre as part of the Hong Kong International Film Festival. The top winner was ''Secret Sunshine'' from South Korea, which won Best Film, Best Director for Lee Chang-dong and Best Actress for Jeon Do-yeon. ''Secret Sunshine'' had been nominated for four awards.Shackleton, Liz. 17 March 200Secret Sunshine lights up Asian Film Awards Screen Daily' retrieved 2008-03-18Frater, Patrick. 17 March 2008"Secret Sunshine" is AFA triple winner, Variety; retrieved 2008-03-18 The top nominees were ''Lust, Caution'' by Ang Lee and ''The Warlords'' by Peter Chan, both with six nominations each. Tony Leung Chiu Wai, star of ''Lust, Caution'' won Best Actor, while ''The Warlords'' won the award for best visual effects. ''The Sun Also Rises'' by Jiang Wen had five nominations, and it won the prize for Best Supporting Actress, Joan Chen, who was also nominated for best actress for ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Asian Film Awards
The 3rd Asian Film Awards was given in a ceremony on 23 March 2009 as part of the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Nominees and Winners Best Film *Winner: ''Tokyo Sonata'' (Japan) **''Forever Enthralled'' (China) **''The Good, the Bad, the Weird'' (South Korea) **''Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea'' (Japan) **'' The Rainbow Troops'' (Indonesia) **'' Red Cliff'' (China) Best Director *Winner: Koreeda Hirokazu, '' Still Walking'' (Japan) **Feng Xiaogang, '' If You Are the One'' (China) **Kim Jee-woon, ''The Good, the Bad, the Weird'' (South Korea) **Brillante Mendoza, '' Service'' (Philippines) ** Miyazaki Hayao, ''Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea'' (Japan) **John Woo, '' Red Cliff'' (China) Best Actor *Winner: Masahiro Motoki, '' Departures'' (Japan) **Ge You, '' If You Are the One'' (China) **Ha Jung-woo, ''The Chaser'' (South Korea) **Akshay Kumar, '' Singh Is Kinng'' (India) **Kenichi Matsuyama, ''Detroit Metal City'' (Japan) **Song Kang-ho, ''The Good, the Bad, the Weird'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert Dream
''Desert Dream'' (), also known as Hyazgar, is a 2006 drama film written and directed by Korean-Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu. It is a co-production between Korea, Mongolia and France. The film opened the 2006 Asian Summer Film Festival in Barcelona. Plot Cast * Suh Jung as Choi Soon-hee * Bat-Ulzii as Hungai * Shin Dong-ho as Chang-ho * Munkhjiin as Jorick * Enkhtuul as Oyona * Bayasgalan as Sarnai References External links * * * 2006 films 2000s Korean-language films 2006 drama films South Korean drama films Films directed by Zhang Lu 2000s South Korean films {{SouthKorea-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Lu (director)
Zhang Lu may refer to: * Zhang Lu (Han dynasty) (张鲁, died 216), Eastern Han dynasty warlord * Zhang Lu (painter) (张路, 1464–1538), painter * Zhang Lu (singer) (张露, 1932–2009), singer * Zhang Lu (football broadcaster) (张路, born 1951), football broadcaster and commentator, Vice President of Beijing Guo'an FC * Zhang Lü (张律, born 1962), filmmaker * Zhang Lu (taikonaut) Zhang Lu (; born November 1976) is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in August 1999, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1999. Zhang launched on the S ... (张陆, born 1976), taikonaut * Zhang Lu (interpreter) (张璐, born 1977), diplomat and interpreter * Zhang Lu (midfielder) (张璐, born 1987), professional football player * Zhang Lu (goalkeeper) (张鹭, born 1987), professional football goalkeeper * Zhang Lu (speed skater) (张路, born 1988), speed skater {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Just Didn't Do It
is a 2007 Japanese film directed by Masayuki Suo, starring Ryo Kase, Asaka Seto and Kōji Yakusho. Plot Based on a true story, the film is the story of a young man charged with groping on a train. Following the events depicted in the film, which end in a conviction and his decision to appeal, in real life his appeal was rejected by supreme court and his sentence to 18 months of prison has been confirmed. Cast * Ryo Kase * Asaka Seto * Kōji Yakusho * Masako Motai * Koji Yamamoto * Ranran Suzuki * Fumiyo Kohinata * Miyu Yagyu * Toshinori Omi Release The film premiered at the American Film Market in November 2006 in the United States and distributed by Toho in Japan on January 20, 2007. It was later shown in New York City on January 11, 2007. It was Japan's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was chosen as the Best Film at the 2008 Yokohama Film Festival. See also *Cinema of Japan *L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masayuki Suo
Masayuki (written: , ,, , , , , , , , , , , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese animator and director *, Japanese actor *, Japanese baseball player and manager *, Japanese politician *, Japanese samurai *, Japanese pianist and composer *, Japanese karateka *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese handball player *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese astronomer *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese speed skater *, Japanese physician *Masayuki Kawamura (golfer) (born 1967), Japanese golfer *, Japanese seismologist *, Japanese swimmer *, Japanese animator and anime director *, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese gymnast *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese anime director *, Japanese artist *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese actor *, Japanese film producer *, Japanese sculptor *, Japanese foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lust, Caution
''Lust, Caution'' () is a 2007 erotic period espionage mystery romance film directed by Ang Lee, based on the 1979 novella by Eileen Chang. ''Lust, Caution'' is set in Hong Kong in 1938 and in Shanghai in 1942, when the city was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army and ruled by the puppet government led by Wang Jingwei. The film depicts a group of Chinese university students from The University of Hong Kong who plot to assassinate a high-ranking special agent and recruiter working for the puppet government by luring him into a honey trap. The film is generally accepted to be based on the historical event of Chinese spy Zheng Pingru's failed attempt to assassinate the Japanese collaborator Ding Mocun. With this film, Lee won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival for the second time, the first being with ''Brokeback Mountain''. The film adaptation and the story are loosely based on events that took place during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. The film's se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (; born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese filmmaker. Born in Pingtung County of southern Taiwan, Lee was educated in Taiwan and later in the United States. During his filmmaking career, he has received international critical and popular acclaim and a range of accolades. Lee's early successes included ''Pushing Hands'' (1991), ''The Wedding Banquet'' (1993), and ''Eat Drink Man Woman'' (1994), which explored the relationships and conflicts between tradition and modernity, Eastern and Western; the three films are informally known as the "''Father Knows Best''" trilogy.Wei Ming Dariotis, Eileen Fung,Breaking the Soy Sauce Jar: Diaspora and Displacement in the Films of Ang Lee" in Hsiao-peng Lu, ed., '' Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender'' (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997), p. 242. The films were critically successful both in his native Taiwan and internationally. His first entirely English-language film was ''Sense and Sensibility'' (199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun Also Rises (2007 Film)
''The Sun Also Rises'' () is a 2007 film directed, produced and co-written by Chinese director Jiang Wen starring Joan Chen, Anthony Wong, Jaycee Chan, and Jiang Wen himself. This movie is the polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert. This movie was screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival and nominated for Golden Lion but lost to Ang Lee's historical thriller ''Lust, Caution''. This film also premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, and was nominated for Achievement in Cinematography at the 2007 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Plot The movie details four interconnected stories. In the first story, madness and mischief as a single mother (Zhou Yun) drives her devoted son (Jaycee Chan) to distraction with her daredevil antics in pursuit of tranquility. The agile mom climbs tall trees and stands perilously astride a small earthen raft on the riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiang Wen
Jiang Wen (born 5 January 1963) is a Chinese actor, screenwriter, and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "Sixth Generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film '' Red Sorghum'' (1986), and more recently as Baze Malbus in the Star Wars film ''Rogue One'' (2016). He is the older brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu. Career Born in Tangshan, Hebei, in a family of military personnel, Jiang relocated to Beijing at the age of ten. In 1973 he attended Beijing No. 72 Middle School, where he studied alongside Ying Da. In 1980, he entered China's foremost acting school, the Central Academy of Drama, graduating in 1984. After graduation, he was assigned to China Youth Art Institute as an actor. That same year, he started acting both on the stage (with the China Youth Theater) and in films. Jiang's debut role was in the film ''The Last Empress'', where he portrayed Puyi. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Warlords
''The Warlords'' (), previously known as ''The Blood Brothers'', is a 2007 epic action war drama film directed by Peter Chan and starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Xu Jinglei. The film was released on 13 December 2007 simultaneously in most of Asia, except Japan.Coonan, C"Chan's 'Warlords' wraps" ''Variety'', 2007-03-30. Retrieved on 2007-04-02. The film is set in the 1860s, during the Taiping Rebellion in the late Qing dynasty in China and centers on the sworn brotherhood of three men. Plot The film is set in China in the 1860s, during the Taiping Rebellion. It is based on the assassination of Ma Xinyi in 1870. In the beginning, there is a battle between loyalists and rebels, during which all of the loyalists, abandoned by the forces of a rival loyalist commander, are killed except Qingyun, the general. Qingyun goes to a village nearby where the inhabitants, led by two men, Erhu and Wuyang, engage in banditry. He offers his assistance in executing a raid again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
