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Under the Hawthorn Tree (film)
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Under the Hawthorn Tree is 2010 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou. It was adapted from the popular 2007 novel Hawthorn Tree Forever by Ai Mi, the film was released in Mainland China, Hong Kong and in Singapore. Jing Qiu is one of the educated youth sent to be re-educated through work in the countryside under a directive from Chairman Mao Zedong. Jing Qiu is lodged with the family of head, where she meets geology student Sun Jianxin, who also takes his meals at Zhangs home. Lao Sans father held a position in the military. Jings father was also a political prisoner somewhere in China and her mother, following the political persecution of her father, Jing Qiu lived with her mother and little siblings, working towards becoming a teacher to support her family. Despite the fact that this could endanger the future of Jing Qiu and her family, Jing Qiu and Lao San fell in love, Lao San also promised to wait for her until she grew up. Jing Qiu was torn between her feelings for Lao San and her duty to her family. However, Lao San later developed leukemia and forced himself to leave Jing Qiu, Jing, without knowing about Lao Sans deadly disease, was only reunited with him when he was dying in hospital. The film closed with Jing Qiu tearfully calling the unconscious Lao San, repeatedly saying I am Jing Qiu, Zhang Yimou decided to bring the story to the big screen after being moved by the novel. The film debuted in the 15th Busan International Film Festival on 7 October 2010 and it was then released in Mainland China on 15 September 2010 and in Hong Kong on 11 November 2010. It was also released on 10 February 2011 in Singapore cinemas and my Paper said that Dou and Zhou bring a touching believability to this tale of young love and rated this film 3.5 stars. Pusan International Film Festival website stated that He renders it as something now tainted under the weight of age, Zhang expresses his view of innocence in a soft, almost feminine, approach. He successfully draws enticing portrayals of innocence from Zhou Dongyu and Dou Xiao, Zhang Yimou appears to reclaim his own innocence as a youthful creator. Kaori Shoji of The Japan Times gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, the film grossed ¥148 million in China. Under the Hawthorn Tree at the Internet Movie Database Under the Hawthorn Tree at Rotten Tomatoes
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Busan
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Busan, officially Busan Metropolitan City, romanized as Pusan before 2000, is South Koreas second most-populous city after Seoul, with a population of approximately 3.6 million. The population of the area, including the adjacent cities of Gimhae. The city is located on the southeastern-most tip of the Korean peninsula, located within South Koreas largest industrial area, The Southeast Economic Zone, the city is the cultural, educational and economic center of the region. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth busiest seaport by cargo tonnage. The most densely built up areas of the city are situated in a number of narrow valleys between the Nakdong River and the Suyeong River, with mountains separating most of the districts, administratively, it is designated as a Metropolitan City. The Busan metropolitan area is divided into 15 major administrative districts, Busan was the host city of the 2002 Asian Games and the APEC2005 Korea. It was also one of the host cities for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, on November 14,2005, the city authorities officially announced its bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics Games. After Pyeongchangs successful bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics, Busan is considering bidding to host the 2028 or 2032 Summer Olympics, Busan has Koreas largest beach and longest river, and is home to the worlds largest department store, the Shinsegae Centum City. Geochilsan-guk existed in the second and 3rd and 4th centuries as a chiefdom of Jinhan and it was absorbed by Silla and renamed Geochilsan-gun. The word Geochilsan means rough mountain, probably referring to Hwangbyeongsan, the mounded burials of Bokcheon-dong were built along the top of a ridge that overlooks a wide area that makes up parts of modern-day Dongnae-gu and Yeonje-gu. Archaeologists excavated more than 250 iron weapons and ingots from Burial No,38, a wooden chamber tomb at Bokcheon-dong. In 757, Geochilsan-gun was again renamed Dongnae, which it is still called, from the beginning of the 15th century, the Korean government designated Busan as a trading port with the Japanese and allowed their settlement. Other Japanese settlements in Ulsan and Jinhae diminished later, but the Busan settlement, called Waegwan at the time, after the war, diplomatic relations with the new shogunate in Japan were established in 1607, and Busan Waegwan was permitted to be reconstructed. The Japanese settlement, though relocated into Choryang later, continued to exist until Korea was exposed to modern diplomacy in 1876, in 1876, Busan became the first international port in Korea. During the Japanese rule, Busan developed into a hub trading port with Japan, Busan was the only city in Korea to adopt the steam tramway before electrification was introduced in 1924. During the Korean War, Busan was one of two cities in South Korea not captured by the North Korean army within the first three months of the War. As a result, the city became a camp site for Koreans during the war. As Busan was one of the few areas in Korea that remained under the control of South Korea throughout the Korean War, UN troops established a defensive perimeter around the city known as the Pusan Perimeter in the summer and autumn of 1950
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South Korea
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South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. The earliest Korean pottery dates to 8000 BC, with three kingdoms flourishing in the 1st century BC and its rich and vibrant culture left 19 UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity, the third largest in the world, along with 12 World Heritage Sites. Annexed into Imperial Japan in 1910, Korea was divided after its surrender in 1945, peace has since mostly continued with the two agreeing to work peacefully for reunification and the South solidifying peace as a regional power with the worlds 10th largest defence budget. South Koreas tiger economy soared at an average of 10% for over 30 years in a period of rapid transformation called the Miracle on the Han River. A long legacy of openness and focus on innovation made it successful, today, it is the worlds fifth largest exporter with the G20s largest budget surplus and highest credit rating of any country in East Asia. It has free trade agreements with 75% of the economy and is the only G20 nation trading freely with China, the US. Since 1988, its constitution guarantees a liberal democracy with high government transparency, high personal freedoms led to the rise of a globally influential pop culture such as K-pop and K-drama, a phenomenon called the Korean Wave, known for its distinctive fashionable and trendy style. Home of the UN Green Climate Fund and GGGI, South Korea is a leader in low carbon growth, committed to helping developing countries as a major DAC. It is the third least ignorant country in the Index of Ignorance, ranking eighth highest for peaceful tolerance. It is the worlds largest spender on R&D per GDP, leading the OECD in graduates in science, the name Korea derives from the name Goryeo. The name Goryeo itself was first used by the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo in the 5th century as a form of its name. The 10th-century kingdom of Goryeo succeeded Goguryeo, and thus inherited its name, the modern spelling of Korea first appeared in the late 17th century in the travel writings of the Dutch East India Companys Hendrick Hamel. After Goryeo was replaced by Joseon in 1392, Joseon became the name for the entire territory. The new official name has its origin in the ancient country of Gojoseon, in 1897, the Joseon dynasty changed the official name of the country from Joseon to Daehan Jeguk. The name Daehan, which means great Han literally, derives from Samhan, however, the name Joseon was still widely used by Koreans to refer to their country, though it was no longer the official name. Under Japanese rule, the two names Han and Joseon coexisted, there were several groups who fought for independence, the most notable being the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. Following the surrender of Japan, in 1945, the Republic of Korea was adopted as the name for the new country. Since the government only controlled the part of the Korean Peninsula
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Jung Joon-ho
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Jung Joon-ho is a South Korean actor, who gained fame in the 2000 series, Women Like You. His recent hits are The Last Scandal of My Life and IRIS, Jung Jun-ho has a passionate interest in singing. In The Last Scandal of My Life aired on MBC, Jung sang his characters theme song, jungs performance in The Last Scandal of My Life earned him the title as one of the top excellent actors of 2008. His acting again gained recognition in 2009s hit drama, IRIS and he was crowned as one of the excellent actors. Jung Jun-ho started his career at 1995. He never thought of entering the entertainment industry and becoming an actor and he admitted that when he was a kid, he was shy and would cry when his teacher placed him in front of the class to sing. After enlisting in the military, he hosted events. He began to realize his talent - acting and he joined MBC station training class at 1995. Feeling discouraged, he had thoughts of retiring from the entertainment industry, after all, he considered himself as an introvert. His personality might not be suitable as an actor, in 2000, he landed a role in television series, Women Like You. The series propelled him to stardom, at the same year, he was cast in My Boss, My Hero. To his surprise, the not only received high box office record. Due to his success with his role in My Boss, My Hero. All of them were pretty successful and his comedic image was deeply engraved in fans mind. However, he felt typecast and hoped for a change of image and he questioned himself which career route he wished to head down and which new image he wanted to develop. In 2005, a director suggested him to play a villain in Another Public Enemy and his performance stunned his fans and the media. They never knew that Jung Jun-ho has a villainous side, the positive remarks he received from his fans and media boosted his confidence in his acting. In 2008 and 2009 he gave another outstanding performances in The Last Scandal of My Life and he hopes to take on more exotic roles in his upcoming series and movies that will give audiences a fresh feeling every time they see him onscreen
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Han Ji-hye
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Han Ji-hye is a South Korean actress. Born Lee Ji-hye, she used the stage name Han Ji-hye upon learning that her name would cause confusion among fans since an older actress, Lena Lee. Han made her entertainment debut as a model, then started acting in supporting roles in TV dramas such as Summer Scent and she landed her first leading role in Sweet 18. Han then displayed newfound maturity and great improvement in her acting in the 2008 epic drama East of Eden, in 2008, Han along with Leon Jay Williams sang the Korean and Chinese versions of Olympic theme song Friends. She was brought to the project via a proposal from the Chinese Olympic committee to sing Friends as the official swimming theme of the Beijing National Aquatics Centre at the Beijing Olympics. Less than a later, she again recorded a digital single. After studying the craft of shoemaking and design in Florence, Italy, Han collaborated with existing shoe brand Jinny Kim to design and produce her own line and this was documented on Han Ji-hye, Shoes. Which aired on cable channel Olive TV, Han then published My Fair Lady, a collection of autobiographical lifestyle essays. It also touched on the projects she has undertaken such as designing shoes, studying tea ceremony, learning about ceramics, DIY furniture making. Director Lee Joon-ik cast Han in his 2010 period action film Blades of Blood without auditioning her — not for her talents, aside from finding her single eyelid unique and difficult to find in recent years, Lee liked that she related to him in a natural manner. She also sang on the soundtrack, having played a gisaeng in the film, Han played the protagonist in the 2012 drama May Queen, the success story of a woman in the shipbuilding industry during Korea’s modernization. In 2013, she portrayed dual roles in Pots of Gold and this was followed by another leading role as a wrongfully convicted prisoner turned baker in Legendary Witches in 2014. In January 2016, Han signed with management agency KeyEast, on September 21,2010, Han married public prosecutor Jung Hyuk-joon in a private ceremony in Hawaii. Han Ji-hye on Twitter Han Ji-hye on Facebook Han Ji-hye on Instagram Han Ji-hye on Cyworld Han Ji-hye at Wayz Company Han Ji-hye at HanCinema Han Ji-hye at the Internet Movie Database
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Busan International Film Festival
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The Busan International Film Festival, held annually in Haeundae-gu, Busan, South Korea, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. The first festival, held from 13 to 21 September 1996, was also the first international festival in Korea. The focus of the BIFF is introducing new films and first-time directors, another notable feature is the appeal of the festival to young people, both in terms of the large youthful audience it attracts and through its efforts to develop and promote young talent. In 1999, the Pusan Promotion Plan was established to connect new directors to funding sources, the 16th BIFF in 2011 saw the festival move to a new permanent home, the Busan Cinema Center in Centum City. The Busan Cinema Center is an about USD150 million structure designed by Austria-based architecture collective Coop Himmelblau, a Window on Asian Cinema, A showcase of brand new and/or representative films by the talented Asian filmmakers with their diverse points of view and style. New Currents, The only international competition section featuring the first or the feature films by the future leading directors of Asian cinema. Korean Cinema Today, Selected Korean feature films are shown in two sub-sections, Panorama and Vision and these two sub-sections recognise the current production trend of Korean cinema and anticipate its future. Korean Cinema Retrospective, Revisiting the history of Korean cinema by spotlighting films of a notable director or films with a significant theme. World Cinema, Presentation of new works by world-renowned filmmakers along with the years best films that help understanding the recent trends in world cinema. Wide Angle, A section dedicated to showing outstanding short films, animation, documentaries, open Cinema, A unique outdoor screening venue where a collection of new films, combining both art and mass popularity, are shown along with internationally acclaimed works. Flash Forward, Flash Forward is set to discover yet-surfaced cineastes and this section is an eclectic collection of first or second films of up-and-coming filmmakers from non-Asian countries. Midnight Passion, Midnight Passion presents films of diverse genres selected for entertainment value from all over the world to meet the audience at night, special Programs in Focus, A retrospective and special showcase of films of a certain notable director or genre. Asian Cinema Fund, The Asian Cinema Fund is a program to help activate more independent film productions. It supports projects in various stages and categories, from script development, ACF also aims to be a cornerstone in the foundation of a pan-Asian network by providing a meeting place for Asian filmmakers. The 900 million won Asian Cinema Fund will be used to support to seven projects in script development, five post-productions. The Script Development Fund is aimed at helping screenwriters complete their scripts and it will offer an opportunity to make for a more creative and fine-tuned project. The Post-Production Fund is made possible through the support of Korean post-production companies. With this fund, the director is invited to Korea to work on sound and it will help the director complete his or her film in 35mm
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Busan Cinema Center
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The Busan Cinema Center is the official, exclusive venue of the Busan International Film Festival, where its opening and closing ceremonies take place, located in Centum City, Busan, South Korea. The about USD150 million center opened on September 29,2011 almost three years after construction began, as of July 2013, it has the Guinness World Record for the longest cantilever roof. The center was designed by the Austrian architectural design firm Coop Himmelbau, the center comprises three buildings, Biff Theater with the Small Roof, and Dureraum Square with the Big Roof. The Busan Cinema Center, built on a 32,137 m² plot, occupies 54,335 m² of performance, dining, entertainment, the center has two steel roofs. The Big Roof is 163 m long x 60 m wide with an 85 m cantilever portion, the Small Roof covering the outdoor theater BIFF Theater has a span of 70 m and an area of 66 m x 100 to 120 m and weighs 1,236 tons. The Big Roof is the longest cantilever roof certified by Guinness World Records, the ceilings of the Big and Small Roofs are clad with 23,910 and 18,690 LED lights respectively
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Zhang Yimou
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Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum. In 1993, he was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival, Zhang directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, which received considerable international acclaim. One of Zhangs recurrent themes is the resilience of Chinese people in the face of hardship and adversity, a theme which has been explored in such films as To Live and Not One Less. His films are noted for their rich use of colour, as can be seen in some of his early films, like Raise the Red Lantern. His highest budgeted film to date is the 2016 monster film titled The Great Wall, set in Imperial China, Zhang was born in Xian, the capital of Shaanxi province. As a result, Zhang faced difficulties in his early life, during this time he took up painting and amateur still photography. In 1978, he went to Beijing Film Academy and majored in photography and he has an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Boston University and also one from Harvard University. After a personal appeal to the Ministry of Culture, and showing a portfolio of his photographic works. Zhang graduated with the class of 1982, which also included Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang, the class went on to form the core of the Fifth Generation, who were a part of an artistic reemergence in China after the end of the Cultural Revolution. Zhang and his co-graduates were assigned to regional studios. This led to the production of Zhang Junzhaos One and Eight, on which Zhang Yimou worked as director of photography, Yellow Earth is today widely considered the inaugural film of the Fifth Generation directors. In 1985, after moving back to his town of Xian, Zhang was engaged as cinematographer and lead actor for director Wu Tianmings upcoming film Old Well. The lead role won Zhang a Best Actor award at the Tokyo International Film Festival,1987 saw the release of Zhangs directorial debut, Red Sorghum, starring Chinese actress Gong Li in her first leading role. Codename Cougar, an experiment in the political thriller genre, was released in 1989, featuring Gong Li. However, it garnered less-than-positive reviews at home and Zhang himself later dismissed the film as his worst, in the same year, Zhang began work on his next project, the period drama Ju Dou. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival, after the success of Ju Dou, Zhang began work on Raise the Red Lantern. Based on Su Tongs novel Wives and Concubines, the film depicted the realities of life in a family compound during the 1920s
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Ann Hui
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Ann Hui On-Wah, MBE is a Hong Kong actress, director, producer and occasional screenwriter. She is one of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers amongst the Hong Kong New Wave and she is known for her controversial films about social issues in Hong Kong. Hui has won awards for her films, including, Best Director and Best Picture at the Hong Kong Film Awards. She was honored for her lifetime accomplishments at the 2012 Asian Film Awards, on 23 May 1947, Ann Hui was born in Anshan, Liaoning province, Manchuria to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother. In 1952, she moved to Macau, then Hong Kong at the age of five, Hui then received a Masters in English and comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong until 1972 and later, studied at the London Film School for two years. Before receiving her degree, Hui studied and did her thesis on the works of Alain Robbe-Grillet, when Hui returned to Hong Kong after her stay in London, she became the assistant to the prominent Chinese film director, King Hu. Her breakthrough directorial work began with several series and short documentaries on 16mm for the Television Broadcasts Limited television station. During 1977, Hui produced and directed half a dozen films for the Independent Commission Against Corruption, two of these films were so controversial that they had to be banned from airing. A year later, Hui directed three episodes Below the Lion Rock, which depicts the lives of people from Hong Kong, under the public broadcasting station, the most recognized episode of Hui’s is Boy from Vietnam, which is the start of her Vietnam trilogy. After a few years in the industry, Hui finally directed her first feature-length film. In the 1980s, Hui’s career was growing on the cinema circuit. The most popular films for that time were Eastern variations of Hollywood oriented gangster, but Hui did not follow the trend and preferred to create more personal films. Many of her best films involved themes pertaining to cultural displacement, in particular, her central characters are often individuals who are forced to relocate to another country and shown to be struggling and learning to survive. Hui tends to explore the reactions to different environments and their responses to their return home. Her best known works, which fall under this category, are The Story of Woo Viet, although Hui has directed some generic films, another common theme she works with is family conflict, such as in the film My American Grandson. One of her most personal work is Song of the Exile, the film depicts the story of a young woman, Cheung Hueyin returning to Hong Kong for her sisters wedding after studying film in London for a couple of years. The Hueyin and her mother, who is Japanese, do not seem to have a steady relationship, in the 1990s, Hui’s work began to target more commercialized films. Her directing career has slowed down a bit, as she focused more on work for other filmmakers
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Certified Copy (film)
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Certified Copy is a 2010 art film by Iranian writer and director Abbas Kiarostami, starring Juliette Binoche and the British opera singer William Shimell, in his first film role. The film is set in Tuscany, and focuses on a British writer, the film was a French-majority production, with co-producers in Italy and Belgium. The dialogue is in French, English and Italian, the film premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival where Binoche won the Best Actress Award for her performance. She leaves her phone number with Millers translator, Miller and the woman later meet at her shop, and Miller suggests they get out and see some of the countryside. The woman drives them around aimlessly while Miller signs the books, Miller points out that even the Mona Lisa is a copy of the woman who modeled for the painting, real or imagined. They then visit an art museum to see another famous copy, and the woman gets increasingly distraught as she complains about her rebellious son to Miller and their discussions get personal, and its intentionally unclear which, if either, is the true reality of the film. After some arguing, and some soul-baring language, a reconciliation ends the film, since then they had both desired to work together and in 2008 Binoche appeared briefly in Kiarostamis experimental film Shirin. During a visit in Tehran by Binoche, Kiarostami told Binoche the synopsis of Certified Copy as a casual anecdote, according to Kiarostami, studying the reactions of Binoche as she listened to the story was a vital part of the films further development. The film suffered from delays and changes in the cast. Filming was originally supposed to start in October 2007 with English as the principal language, a second attempt was planned for March 2008, this time mainly in French and with Sami Frey opposite Binoche. Next up to be attached was François Cluzet, with filming scheduled to begin in May 2009. At some point Robert De Niro was in negotiation for the role, but eventually it was offered to William Shimell, a baritone opera singer who had never acted in a film before. Kiarostami had met Shimell in 2008 during his own debut as an opera director, when I saw him, I immediately perceived in him the strength, finesse and humour of the character, Kiarostami commented on his choice. Production was led by MK2 in co-production with France 3 and the Italian company BiBi Films, funding was granted by the CNC and via pre-sales to Canal+. The budget was 3.8 million euro, the film was finally shot from 8 June 2009 on location in Tuscany, using locations in Cortona, Lucignano and Arezzo. He also noted how he for once felt free to express whatever he wanted in the film, Certified Copy premiered on 18 May 2010 at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival as part of the main competition. It was released the day in regular French cinemas through MK2. The film opened in 101 venues and had an attendance of 70,876 the first week, resulting in a ninth place on the French box office chart
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Abbas Kiarostami
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Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active film-maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker trilogy, Close-Up, Taste of Cherry – which was awarded the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival that year – and The Wind Will Carry Us. In his later works, Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love, he filmed for the first time outside Iran, in Italy and Japan, Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material. He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator and these filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues. He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, Kiarostamis films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements. The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death and he majored in painting and graphic design, and supported his studies by working as a traffic policeman. As a painter, designer, and illustrator, Kiarostami worked in advertising in the 1960s, designing posters, between 1962 and 1966, he shot around 150 advertisements for Iranian television. In the late 1960s, he began creating credit titles for films and its debut production and Kiarostamis first film was the twelve-minute The Bread and Alley, a neo-realistic short film about a schoolboys confrontation with an aggressive dog. The department became one of Irans most noted film studios, producing not only Kiarostamis films, but acclaimed Persian films such as The Runner and Bashu, in the 1970s, Kiarostami pursued an individualistic style of film making. When discussing his first film, he stated, Bread and Alley was my first experience in cinema, I had to work with a very young child, a dog, and an unprofessional crew except for the cinematographer, who was nagging and complaining all the time. Well, the cinematographer, in a sense, was right because I did not follow the conventions of film making that he had become accustomed to, following The Experience, Kiarostami released The Traveler in 1974. The Traveler tells the story of Qassem Julayi, a troubled and troublesome boy from a small Iranian city. Intent on attending a match in far-off Tehran, he scams his friends and neighbors to raise money. In addressing the boys determination to reach his goal, alongside his indifference to the effects of his actions, the film examined human behavior. It furthered Kiarostamis reputation for realism, diegetic simplicity, and stylistic complexity, in 1975, Kiarostami directed two short films So Can I and Two Solutions for One Problem. In early 1976, he released Colors, followed by the fifty-four-minute film A Wedding Suit, Kiarostamis first feature film was the 112-minute Report. It revolved around the life of a tax collector accused of accepting bribes, in 1979, he produced and directed First Case, Second Case
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Late Autumn (2010 film)
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Late Autumn is a 2010 English-language film directed by Kim Tae-yong. It stars Tang Wei as Anna, a prisoner who is given a 72 hours parole to visit family in Seattle, and who meets and befriends a South Korean man on-the-run. A co-production between South Korea, Hong Kong, China and the United States, it is the remake of the now-lost 1966 Lee Man-hee melodrama classic of the same title. Washington state, US, the present day, Anna, an immigrant from China, has been in prison for seven years for the manslaughter of her husband, who was jealous over her re-meeting her former boyfriend Wang Jing. Hearing that her mother has died and her brother John has arranged her bail, on the coach she meets a young Korean man, Hoon, who borrows US$30 towards a ticket, and he gives her his watch as security, promising to pay her back later. Unknown to Anna, Hoon is a gigolo on the run from powerful businessman Steve, Hoon meets Anna again in Seattle, and the pair spend time together. The next day he turns up at her mothers funeral, Anna tells him she has to return to prison on time, but Hoon doesnt give up so easily. It also screened at the 15th Busan International Film Festival, the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, the film was released in Korean theaters on February 17,2011 and took ₩6.3 billion in the box office. It became the highest grossing Korean film released in China to date, quickly gathering over 910,000 admissions after its March release, with a total box office take of more than 60 million yuan
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Kim Tae-yong
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Kim Tae-yong is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. After his feature directorial debut Memento Mori, he helmed the critically acclaimed Family Ties, although he initially wanted to pursue writing, Kim Tae-yong eventually graduated from Yonsei University in 1994 with a major in Politics and Diplomacy. He first became involved in Korean cinema through a friend, who was an assistant director of an independent production, inspired by the vibrant atmosphere that came with working on a set, Kim then enrolled at the Korean Academy of Film Arts in 1996. He met and became friends with fellow director Min Kyu-dong while at KAFA, in 1999, Kim and Min received the offer to direct Memento Mori as a sequel to the horror film Whispering Corridors, and so began Kim’s foray into commercial cinema. In some ways, Memento Mori might be considered the most influential Korean horror film of the 2000s, although it was not a box-office hit, the film is frequently cited by young filmmakers and cinema fans as a modern-day classic. His intimate portrayal of an unconventional but non-dysfunctional family garnered multiple domestic. Kims third feature film Late Autumn was a remake of Lee Man-hees 1966 classic Manchu set in Seattle and it was also critically acclaimed and became the highest-grossing Korean film in China. Kim then joined the project and re-directed Crossroads of Youth by performing Korea’s oldest known silent film with live narration. Kim married Chinese actress Tang Wei on July 12,2014, a formal wedding ceremony was later held in Hong Kong, with only immediate family members as guests. The couple first met in 2009 when he directed her in the film Late Autumn and this is the second marriage for Kim, he and his first wife divorced in 2011. Picnic Have a Cup of Tea, or See a Film and you Are More Than Beautiful Late Autumn Take Action, Now or Never. Cinema Paradise Girl on the Run Family Ties On the Road, Two Pass Me Memento Mori Pale Blue Dot Free to Fly You Are More Than Beautiful Late Autumn Take Action, Now or Never
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Raavanan
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Raavanan is a 2010 Indian Tamil epic adventure film co written, co produced, and directed by Mani Ratnam. The film features Vikram, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Prithviraj in the roles, with a supporting cast led by Karthik, Prabhu. The film was made simultaneously in Hindi as Raavan, with a slightly different cast. Furthermore, the film was dubbed and released in Telugu as Villain, the film follows the crux of the epic Ramayana, with a ruthless police officer on the chase to find a tribal leader and lawbreaker, who has kidnapped his wife. Veeraiya, the kidnapper and his motive for the kidnap has been led on by the death of his sister, as a result of police custodial torture and brutal rape. The film explores the search by the officer, whilst exploring the changing emotions that the three protagonists experience with other, leading to a riveting climax, situated in the jungle. This film is based on stockholm syndrome, shooting began soon after, and took place in various locations with a record number of extras in areas including Chalakudy, Kerala and Ooty, Tamil Nadu amongst other regions throughout India. The film received mixed to positive reviews, and performed average at the box office, the film opens with shots showing Veeraiya jumping off a cliff into water. His gang is busy distracting the police, police vehicles are set ablaze and women seduce policemen into a trap whereby Veeras henchmen attack. Raagini, whilst on a trip, is kidnapped by Veera. Dev Prakash, her husband and a police officer, is informed of the incident. A brief montage of sorts showcases the story of Veeraiya and he is seen as a local hero, who runs a parallel govt in areas near Tirunelveli, with his brothers – Singarasu and Sakkarai. Though considered a terrorist by the police, Veeraiyya is respected by the villagers. He kidnaps Raagini hoping to avenge the death of his sister Vennila and he brings her to the edge of a cliff to shoot her to death. She refuses to die at his hands and jumps off the cliff into the water far below, hoping to kill herself and this causes Veera to hold off the murder, being unable to kill someone who has no fear of death. Dev and his team enter the forests with the aid of Gnanaprakasam, despite searching deep in the forests, Dev is unable to hunt down Veera. Meanwhile, Raagini develops feelings for Veera after she hears the story of his sisters death, Dev had led an encounter against Veera during Vennilas wedding. Devs shot grazes Veera in the neck, Veera, fighting for his life, is unable to protect his sister, and he is led out of the fiasco by his gang
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Mani Ratnam
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Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam, commonly known by his screen name Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. Cited by the media as one of Indias influential filmmakers, Mani Ratnam is widely credited with revolutionising the Tamil film industry, although working in the mainstream medium, his films are noted for their realism, technical finesse, and craft. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, acknowledging his contributions to film in 2002, despite being born into a film family, Mani Ratnam did not develop any interest towards films when he was young. Upon completion of his post graduation in management, he started his career as a consultant and he entered the film industry through the 1983 Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi. The failure of his subsequent films would mean that he was left with fewer offers, however, his fifth directorial outing, Mouna Ragam, established him as a leading filmmaker in Tamil cinema. He followed that with the Godfatheresque Nayagan, which is regarded as a film over the years. Mani Ratnam is well known for his Political trilogy consisting of Roja, Bombay, the commercial and critical success of Roja established him as a leading filmmaker in Indian cinema. Mani Ratnam is married to Tamil actress Suhasini and has a son with her and he has won several film awards, including six National Film Awards,7 Filmfare Awards South and three Bollywood Filmfare Awards, and a few awards at various international film festivals. Mani Ratnam was born on 2 June 1955, as the child of a family that was closely associated with film production. His father S. Gopala Ratnam was a distributor who worked for Venus Pictures. His elder brother G. Venkateswaran would go on to some of his films. His younger brother, G. Srinivasan, who like Venkateswaran would co-produce some of his films, Mani Ratnam grew up in Madras, along with his siblings and cousins in a joint-family. Despite being a family, the children were not allowed to watch films as the elders considered it a taboo. During this time, he developed an admiration towards actors like Sivaji Ganesan and Nagesh, by the time when he was 15, he got to know about director K. Balachander, and became a fan of him. Upon completing his schooling, he graduated with a degree in commerce from the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, later, he did his Master of Business Administration in finance from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. After finishing his post-graduation in 1977, he was employed in a firm in Madras as a management consultant, Mani is married to Suhasini, an established actress in South Indian cinema then. The two first met in 1988 and got married the same year, the couple have a son Nandhan. The family resides in Alwarpet, Chennai, where he runs his production company, Mani Ratnam was not satisfied with his job as a consultant as he found it to be a mere extension of his academics
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The Recipe (film)
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The Recipe is a 2010 South Korean film about a television producer who finds out many surprising truths while tracking down the story about a mysterious bean paste stew. Behind the captivating taste lies a woman’s unfortunate life and love story, Jang Hye-jin is an ordinary woman whose doenjang jjigae is to die for. Yet Jang is not famous for her recipe and lives a quiet life, when a notorious murderer on death row requests Jang’s soup as his last meal, television producer Choi Yoo-jin starts looking for Jang and the recipe. But Choi is not the one looking for Jang. Kim Hyun-soo, Jang’s old flame, decides to return to his hometown to look for his first love, at the same time, three people die after eating Jang’s soup. What is the secret behind the soup and how many people will have to die for it. Twelve years after her last film Rub Love, director Anna Lee wonderfully mixes two different genres - the thriller and the love story. The English title The Recipe contains a lot of meaning, a record of a life, a memory of taste, an experience of loss. In this sense, the film is a recipe for everything, with his original touch, Lee illustrates the obsession with unforgettable memories of love and a fatalistic point of view. The soybean soup recipe contains pain, longing and salvation, in a sense, the recipe is the very history of Korea’s memory and tradition. Park Min / Park Gu Lee Yong-nyeo, blind man Park Hye-jin. owner of Soondae Soup restaurant Yoo Soon-woong. salt farm owner Lee Sang-hee. Owner of small store in the countryside The Recipe at Naver The Recipe at HanCinema The Recipe at the Korean Movie Database The Recipe at the Internet Movie Database
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
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Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps is a 2010 American drama film directed by Oliver Stone, a sequel to Wall Street. It stars Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon and, in his film role before his death in 2014. The film takes place in New York,23 years after the original, principal photography took place in New York between September and November 2009. After having its release date moved twice, Money Never Sleeps was released worldwide on September 24,2010. Prior to its release, many journalists connected to the financial industry were reportedly shown advance screenings of the film. In 2001, Gordon Gekko is released from prison after serving eight years for insider trading, seven years later, Gekko is promoting his new book Is Greed Good. Warning about the economic downturn. His estranged daughter, Winnie, runs a small, non-profit news website and is dating Jacob Moore, Jacob is a protégé of managing director Louis Zabel, and is trying to raise money for a fusion research project which would create massive amounts of clean energy for the world. Jake is also assisting his mother, who has begun a new career selling real estate. When the recession of 2008 hits, Keller Zabels stock loses more than 50% of its value, Zabel kills himself by jumping in front of a subway train because he cannot handle the stress and embarrassment of losing his company. A distraught Jacob proposes marriage to Winnie, who accepts, then attends a lecture given by Gordon Gekko, Gekko tells him that Keller Zabels collapse started when rumors of the company having toxic debt started to spread. Jacob and Gekko arrange a trade, Jacob will try to reconcile Winnies and Gekkos relationship, Jake, aided by Gekko, learns that Bretton James profited from the Keller Zabel collapse. In revenge, Jake spreads rumors about the nationalization of an Equatorial Guinea oil field owned by Churchill Schwartz, the company loses $120 million, but Bretton offers Jake a job, impressed by his initiative. In his new position, Jake convinces Chinese investors to fund the research by Dr. Masters he has been supporting. Jake attends a fundraiser with Winnie and pays for a seat at a table for Gekko priced at $10,000, Gekko confronts Bretton about what he did to him and also to Zabel. Bretton mocks him that no one cares what Gekko knows or thinks anymore, Gekko also bumps into Bud Fox, and they discuss their shared experience going to jail. Gekko then follows Winnie outside, where she explains why she blames him for everything that went wrong, Gekko claims he paid for the best therapists and even paid off a drug dealer to stop selling to Rudy, who died from an overdose. As the economy starts to crumble, Bretton and business mentor Julius Steinhardt advise federal regulators what drastic actions must be taken, jakes mother continues to come to him for large sums of money
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Oliver Stone
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William Oliver Stone is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer. Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of Midnight Express and he also wrote the acclaimed gangster movie Scarface. As a director, Stone achieved prominence as director/writer of the war drama Platoon, for which Stone won the Academy Award for Best Director, Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July —for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and Heaven & Earth. Many of Stones films focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century and they often combine different camera and film formats within a single scene, as evidenced in JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon. Stone was born September 15,1946, in New York City, the son of Jacqueline and Louis Stone and he grew up in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. His parents met during World War II, when his father was fighting as a part of the Allied force in France and his American-born father was a non-practicing Jew, and his French-born mother was a non-practicing Roman Catholic. Stone was raised in the Episcopal Church, and now practices Buddhism, Stone attended Trinity School in New York City before his parents sent him away to The Hill School, a college-preparatory school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. His parents were divorced abruptly while he was away at school, Stones mother was often absent and his father made a big impact on his life, father-son relationships were to feature heavily in Stones films. He often spent parts of his vacations with his maternal grandparents in France. Stone also worked at 17 in the Paris mercantile exchange in sugar, Stone graduated from The Hill School in 1964. Stone was admitted into Yale University, but left in June 1965 at age 18 to teach school students English for six months in Saigon at the Free Pacific Institute in South Vietnam. Afterwards, he worked as a wiper on a United States Merchant Marine ship in 1966 and he returned to Yale, where he dropped out a second time. In April 1967, Stone enlisted in the United States Army, from September 16,1967 to April 1968, he served in Vietnam with 2nd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Infantry Division and was twice wounded in action. He was then transferred to the First Cavalry Division participating in long range patrols before being transferred again to drive for an infantry unit of the division until November 1968. Stone graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film in 1971, Stone made a short, well received 12-minute film Last Year in Viet Nam. In 1979, Stone won his first Academy Award, after adapting true-life prison story Midnight Express into a hit film for British director Alan Parker. Stones screenplay for Midnight Express was criticized by some for its inaccuracies in portraying the events described in the book, the original author, Billy Hayes, around whom the film is set, spoke out against the film, protesting that he had many Turkish friends while in jail
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Takashi Miike
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Takashi Miike is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over ninety theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions in the years 2001 and 2002 alone. His films range from violent and bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly, Miike was born to Korean parents in Yao, Osaka, Japan, an area inhabited by the poor working class immigrants from the Korean Peninsula. His family originally emigrated to Kumamoto Prefecture, during World War II, his grandfather was stationed in China and Korea, and his father was born in Seoul in todays South Korea. His father worked as a welder and his mother as seamstress, Miikes first films were television productions, but he also began directing several direct-to-video V-Cinema releases. Miike still directs V-Cinema productions intermittently due to the freedom afforded by the less stringent censorship of the medium. Miikes theatrical debut was the film The Third Gangster, however it was Shinjuku Triad Society that was the first of his theatrical releases to gain public attention. The film showcased his style and his recurring themes. Shinjuku Triad Society is also the first film in what is labeled his Black Society Trilogy and he has since gained a strong cult following in the West that is growing with the increase in DVD releases of his works. His film Hara-Kiri, Death of a Samurai premiered In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and his 2013 film Straw Shield was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Miike has garnered international notoriety for depicting shocking scenes of extreme violence, many of his films contain graphic and lurid bloodshed, often portrayed in an over-the-top, cartoonish manner. Much of his work depicts the activities of criminals or concern themselves with gaijin and he is known for his dark sense of humor and for pushing the boundaries of censorship as far as they will go. Despite his notorious reputation, Miike has also directed movies in a range of genres, other less controversial works include Ley Lines and Agitator, which are character-driven crime dramas. While Miike often creates films that are accessible and target arthouse audiences and fans of extreme cinema, such as Izo. Extremes, he has created several mainstream and commercial titles such as the horror film One Missed Call, Miike says that Starship Troopers is his favorite movie. He admires film directors Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Gosha, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, One of his most controversial films was the ultra-violent Ichi the Killer, adapted from a manga of the same name and starring Tadanobu Asano as a sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer. However, the British Board of Film Classification refused to allow the release of the film uncut in Britain, in Hong Kong,15 minutes of footage were cut. In the United States it has been shown uncut, an uncut DVD was also released in the Benelux
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Aftershock (2010 film)
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Aftershock is a 2010 Chinese disaster-drama film directed by Feng Xiaogang and produced by Huayi Brothers, starring Xu Fan, Zhang Jingchu, Chen Daoming, Lu Yi, Zhang Guoqiang and Li Chen. The film depicts the aftermath of the 1976 Tangshan earthquake and it was released in China on 22 July 2010, and is the first big commercial film IMAX film created outside the United States. The film was a box office success, and has grossed more than US$100 million at the Chinese box office. Li Yuanni and her husband, Fang Daqiang, and their children, Fang Deng and Fang Da. One night in 1976, after putting their children to bed, an earthquake suddenly breaks out, causing buildings to crumble and disintegrate. While rushing back to save their children, Li is pulled back by her husband and their apartment block collapses and traps their children under a pile of rubble. In the aftermath of the earthquake, a rescue team informs Li that her twins are trapped under a slab of concrete. Lifting up the slab in any way will cause one of her children to die, feeling heartbroken, Li decides to save her son, Fang Da. The girl, Fang Deng, survives and regains consciousness later to find herself among several dead bodies, assumed to be an orphan, Fang Deng is adopted by a military couple, Wang Deqing and Dong Guilan, who bring her back to their home in Beijing. She is renamed to Wang Deng after taking on her fathers surname. Ten years later, she moves away from home to study in a school in Hangzhou, where she meets a graduate student, Yang Zhi. In her third year, Fang Dengs adoptive mother becomes critically ill, before dying, she asks Fang Deng to use the money they saved to find her real family. Fang Deng finds out that she is pregnant later, despite being pressured by Yang Zhi to undergo an abortion, she refuses to abandon her child and secretly drops out of university and loses contact with Yang and her adoptive father. In the meantime, Fang Das grandmother and aunt had wanted him to live them in Jinan, Shandong Province. The earthquake had claimed his arm, rendering him physically disabled. He marries and has a son, Diandian, with his wife, after a period of four years, Fang Deng brings along her daughter, also named Diandian, and reunites with her adoptive father. She apologises and reconciles with him, on Lunar New Years Eve, she tells her adoptive father that she is getting married to a foreigner and will be emigrating to Vancouver with her daughter. In 2008, Fang Deng sees the earthquake in Sichuan on television and she immediately volunteers to join rescuers and returns to China
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Au Revoir Taipei
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Au Revoir Taipei is a 2010 Taiwanese romantic comedy film set in Taipei. Au Revoir Taipei is called One Page Taipei in Chinese which means one night or one page in Taipei, au Revoir Taipei is Arvin Chens feature directorial debut. It won the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival 2010 and was considered a box office success in Taiwan, Kai, a lovesick young man, wants to leave Taipei in hopes of getting to Paris to be with his girlfriend. Kai spends long nights in a bookstore studying French, where Susie, after one extra ordinary night, Kai finds the excitement and romance he was longing for are already right there in Taipei. Kuo was awarded Best New Actor at the 12th Taipei Film Festival in 2010 for her role as Susie, au Revoir Taipei at the Internet Movie Database Beta Cinema
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Cold Fish
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Cold Fish is a 2010 Japanese horror-drama serial killer film directed by Sion Sono. The film is about a quiet and unambitious owner of a fish shop whose life. The film is based on the exploits of two Tokyo serial killers, Sekine Gen and Hiroko Kazama, a husband and wife duo who owned a pet shop. Cold Fish premiered at the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 7,2010, the film was released as part of the Bloody Disgusting Selects line. Director and writer Sion Sono was influenced by Japanese crime cases while developing Cold Fish, Sono also wanted to depict a sense of total hopelessness which he felt is lacking in Japanese films. Cold Fish premiered at the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 7,2010 and it was also shown at film festivals in Pusan and at the Toronto International Film Festival where it received its North American premiere. Cold Fish won the best screenplay award in the Fantastic Features section at Fantastic Fest 2010 and it was released in Japan on January 29,2011. Film Business Asia gave Cold Fish an 8 out of 10 rating praising the actor Denden who without his tour-de-force performance. Cold Fish may never have worked, the review went on to state that Though theres considerable gore on display, its largely cartoonish. Cold Fish is not so much a blood-and-guts horror movie, more a danse macabre about social breakdown, the Guardian found the film to be fairly ordinary in comparison to Sonos other works and felt that the film was too long. Official website Cold Fish at the Internet Movie Database Cold Fish at Rotten Tomatoes
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Sion Sono
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Sion Sono is a Japanese filmmaker, author and poet. Best known on the circuit for the film Love Exposure. After receiving a fellowship with the PIA, Sono made his first feature-length 16 mm film in 1990, Bicycle Sighs, Sono co-wrote, directed, and starred in the film. In 1992, Sonos second feature film The Room, also written by himself, was a tale about a serial killer looking for a room in a bleak. It participated at the Tokyo Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize, the Room also toured on 49 festivals worldwide, including the Berlin Film Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival. Few weeks after that, he released a sequel to Suicide Circle, norikos Dinner Table was also directed and written by him, and was part of twelve film festivals worldwide. For this movie he worked with many actors, and took the Suicide Circle story into a different level. For his efforts, he received a Don Quijote Award and a Special Mention at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, at the end of 2005, Sion Sono also premiered a personal project with actors Issei Ishida and Masumi Miyazaki. In 2008, he was the director and writer of Love Exposure,2011 saw Sono be recognized in the United States with his work being highlighted in the cinema series Sion Sono, The New Poet presented at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. In 2013 he directed the action-drama Why Dont You Play in Hell, following shortly after, he directed an adaptation of popular manga series Tokyo Tribe. His next project, which begins filming in March 2015, looks to be a documentary on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, in The Hollywood Reporter, Clarence Tsui writes that Sono has established himself as one of the most idiosyncratic artists of his generation. The director has said, I do think an international audience understands my work more
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Mark Meily
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Mark A. Meily is a multi-awarded film director, producer and a film educator who started his career in the Philippines. He has directed campaigns for Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, DocuSign and his feature films have been presented at the film festivals of Deauville, Hawaii, Seattle, Goteborg, Marrakech, Montreal, Busan, Fukuoka and Brussels. He is currently the chair of the Filmmaking program of the De La Salle-College St. Benilde in Manila, Meily was born in the city of Manila, Philippines. He studied at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, and at the Ecole Supérieure dEtudes Cinématographiques as French Government Scholar. Meily took up Visual Communications at the University of the Philippines before studying film at Mowelfund in Manila and he wrote and directed Crying Ladies and La Visa Loca. These films were shown and have won awards in international film festivals from Montreal to Kerala. Crying Ladies received the NETPAC Award and the Best Director prize at the International Film Festival of Kerala and it had a theatrical run in the US and was positively reviewed by the New York Times, the LA Times, and the Village Voice. His third film Baler won 10 awards at the Metro Manila Film Festival and was exhibited at the MoMA in New York in 2009 and his television sit-com Camera Café won the Best Comedy Program at the Asian TV Awards in Singapore. His new film Donor won 5 awards at the 6th Cinemalaya Film Festival including Best Film in Manila and it also won the Grand Prize at the 30th Brussels Independent Film Festival. The film is in the selection at the Pusan, Hawaii Goteborg, Seattle, Marrakesh International Film Festivals. He has taught film at the De La Salle University, the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute, and he won the Palanca Literary Prize in 2001 and 2004. He is currently the chair of the Filmmaking program of the De La Salle-College St. Benilde in Manila, in 2005, he co-founded Spark Digital Content, an interactive design studio and production company. In 2008, Meily directed the pilot episode of Judy Ann Santos Habang May Buhay. He also wrote episodes and directed all six-seasons of the Asian adaptation of the hit French Sit-Com Camera Café, the series won Best Comedy Series at the Asian Television Awards in Singapore. He recently, finished the hit drama seriesJasmine for TV5, for his television work, he won numerous awards such as the Catholic Mass Media Award, the Anvil Award, and the Philippine Advertising Creative Guild Prize. He is also the recipient of awards from the Philippine Advertising Congress. Meily has written two screenplays, Bayad Luha and The Good Friday Archipelago, which have won prizes from the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Foundation annual literary contest, Meily directed Crying Ladies, his first feature film. The film won six awards at the 2003 Metro Manila Film Festival including Best Picture, the film also received several nominations from different award-giving bodies in Philippines
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Driverless (film)
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Driverless is a 2010 Chinese romance film directed by Zhang Yang and starring Liu Ye, Ruby Lin, Gao Yuanyuan, Li Xiaoran, Chen Jianbin and Wang Luodan. Director Zhang Yang says that this movie is a version of his 1997 film Spicy Love Soup. It is composed of three stories in modern society. The complicated relationships of the characters in each story present not beautiful. Driverless is about three stories that are intertwined by a car accident. It deals with relationship issues, the seven year itch, reuniting with a first love, one night stands, May–December romances. The director hoped to present love stories set in our current materialistic era, should we be loyal to money, material things or our own hearts. Lonely deaf-mute teenager Li Xin spies on a car racer, Lijia. Over the course of time, these peoples lives intersect and hidden connections are revealed, also worth mentioning is Li Xiaoran as Liu Yes estranged wife, following her husbands infidelity with mounting despair—twitchfilm. The cast delivers controlled and genuine performances that are a break from the crass overacting that populates Chinas commercial screens. -- The Hollywood Reporter Spicy Love Soup Official website Driverless at the Internet Movie Database Sina page Mtime page
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Emir (film)
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Emir is a 2010 Filipino drama-musical film by acclaimed Filipino director Chito S. Roño. The film revolves around a girl becomes a domestic helper in a fictional oil-rich Arab nation of Yememeni. Amelia, a girl from a poor Ilocano family, decides to go abroad and find her fortune and she becomes a maid of a royal family in the Middle East, which is running out of time, for the wife of the Sheikh is giving birth to a child. The newborn child is a son named Ahmed, and the Sheikhs wife asks Amelia to take care of the baby, Amelia grows fond of the baby, teaching him to speak Tagalog and play tumbang preso. After twelve years of service, Amelias life has improved, unfortunately, a war is coming and the royal family is forced to leave the palace in case they are attacked. One day, men riding on horseback took Ahmed away from Amelia, with the help of the government, Amelia returns home, where she starts her own business and lives a good life. Later she learns that the men who took Ahmed away were under orders from the Sheikh, years later, someone with a familiar voice calls her Yaya and she sees Ahmed who has fully grown up. The film ends with Ahmed, Amelia and Boyong in Amelias house, the shy Boyong even gives Amelia a gold necklace, because he never had the chance to
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Kites (film)
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The film was released in India and in North America on 21 May 2010. Its 208-theater opening in North America made it the largest Bollywood release up to that time and it was also the first Bollywood movie to reach the weekend top ten, though My Name is Khan had a larger first-weekend North American gross. Reliance Entertainment bought worldwide distribution rights of Kites for whooping ₹150 crore, despite a strong opening, The film only managed to collect ₹48.56 crore net in its lifetime run following a critical loss. The film had been aired in a week of its release on smallscreen, Jai is a dance teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a sideline, he marries immigrant women to get her green cards, when Gina, the rich daughter of a powerful casino owner Bob, falls for him, Jai goes along to marry into money. He discovers that his future brother-in-law, the vicious, homicidal Tony, is about to marry a Mexican woman named Natasha, whom Jai knows as Linda, the last of the immigrant women he married. On the night before Natasha and Tonys wedding, Linda and Jai spend a romantic but chaste night, a jealous, gun-wielding Tony arrives at her apartment while Jai is there. After he hits her, Linda impulsively knocks him out with an object while he tussles with Jai. Linda and Jai go on the run toward Mexico, with Tony and they are helped by a friend of Jai, Robin. Robin gives them fake passports and IDs so that they can go wherever they want, in the following week, Jai and Linda get married in Mexico. On the day of their wedding, they come back to their house, there, Robin comes to give them the passports and is unexpectedly shot by Tony and his men. Linda and Jai escape, but Jai is shot in the process, in a car chase, Linda stops the car at a train, puts Jai aboard it, and drives off. Back to the present, Jai meets with Jamaal, one of Bobs employees, Jamaal is killed but not before telling Jai of Lindas whereabouts. Jai kills off all of Tonys men and then kills Tony by smashing his face into the car door and he drives off to the location where Jamaal said Linda was last seen. It is shown that after Jai was put aboard the train, Linda was ambushed on a cliff and sent Jai a text message saying I am going. Sorry and she drives off of the cliff, killing herself by drowning. Jai cries and then smiles, jumping off the cliff as well, finally, he is reunited with Linda under the ocean, and they embrace through death. Later, Deepika Padukone was approached to star opposite Hrithik Roshan, barbara Mori was eventually cast as the female lead after much negotiation and script changes. Kitess worldwide distribution rights were sold for ₹1.5 billion acquired by Reliance big pictures in 2010, the satellite rights were bought by Sony TV group, while the music rights were bought by T-series/Big music
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Anurag Basu
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Anurag Basu is an India television-advertiser, reality show-judge, director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Basu achieved initial success with his films tackling the themes of passion and he began his directing career in television, moving to feature films in 2002. Basu was born into an upper-middle-class Bengali Kayastha family in Bhilai and his parents, Subrato Bose and Deepshikha Bose, were award-winning theatrical artists and Basu grew up watching them perform in his fathers theatre company. He attended BSP Senior Secondary School, Sector -IV, Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai, Chattisgarh, spending part of his life in Garia, South Kolkata. Although Basu was admitted to Jabalpur Engineering College, but he quit it after some time and he received a BSc degree in physics honours. After trying to remain involved with filmmaking, Basu became an assistant director to Raman Kumar on Tara, Basu was in his mid-twenties when he began his television career as an assistant director on Tara, directing about 70 episodes. He directed television serials, trying genres ranging from daily soaps to thrillers such as Saturday Suspense and Ajeeb Dastaan and he began his own company and initially he produced TV serials for ZEETV and SONY channel. The popular shows of his company was Manzilien Apni Apni, Miit, Thriller at Ten Horror shows on ZEE and he directed the TV series Miit, Manzilien Apni Apni. Basu has directed television shows. In 2000 he received a RAPA Award for Best Director Award from the Radio and TV Advertisers Practitioners Association, Basu returned to television in 2007 to produce and direct the college drama Love Story and hosted the Bengali reality show Ke Hobe Biggest Fan for Zee Bangla in 2010. Basu started his own production house ISHANA MOVIES in the year of 2007 ans the first film of ISHANA MOVIES was super duper hit film Life in a METRO with co-producer UTV. Currently his series Stories by Rabindranath Tagore is airing on the EPIC Channel, Basu made his directorial film debut in 2003 with the slasher film Kucch To Hai, starring Tusshar Kapoor, Esha Deol and Anita Hassanandani. It was produced by Ekta Kapoor, with whom he had worked on Koshish. Ek Aashaa, Basu left the film midway through production, replaced by Anil V. Kumar took charge, it failed commercially and critically. He joined Mahesh Bhatts production company, Vishesh Films, where he directed his three films. The first was mystery-drama Saaya starring John Abraham and Tara Sharma, Basus third film was 2004s Murder. The film dealt with adultery and contained sex scenes, unusual for Indian cinema, despite its A certificate from the Central Board of Film Certification. It was well received by critics, who appreciated performances by Mallika Sherawat, Emraan Hashmi, Basus next movie was Gangster, in which he first collaborated with Pritam. He was diagnosed with leukemia in 2004, halfway through Tumsa Nahin Dekha
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Love in a Puff
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Love in a Puff is a 2010 Hong Kong romantic comedy directed by Pang Ho-cheung and starring Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung. The plot revolves around the story of Cherie and Jimmy. The film is classified as a category 3 film in Hong Kong, Love in a Puff is one of the films which premiered in the 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival. The regulars started sharing small talks and dirty jokes like friends at a hot pot dinner, Jimmy is an advertising executive who befriended Cherie, a cosmetic sales girl, at a Hot Pot Pack shortly after Jimmy broke up with his girlfriend who cheated on him. Cheries flirting with Jimmy during their breaks, through text messages. Love in a Puff had a poor opening weekend, mainly due to the Category III rating. However, positive feedbacks on Facebook and tweets resulted in a strong rebound, a sequel, titled Love in the Buff was released on 29 March 2012 with the film being set in Beijing, China. Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung reprised their roles, official website Love in a Puff at the Internet Movie Database LoveHKfilm. com entry HK cinemagic entry
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Pang Ho-cheung
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Pang Ho-cheung is a Hong Kong novelist, playwright, actor and filmmaker. Pang was born in Hong Kong in 1973, at the age of 15, he started using a video camera to direct short films with his elder brother. After graduating from school, he studied abroad in Taiwan for half a year. He later wrote his first novel, and served as a columnist for various newspapers, in 1997, at the age of 24, Pang began 18 months of research for his first novel, “Fulltime Killer”. The novel went on to become popular, selling more than 100,000 copies in Hong Kong. It was then reworked as a program and later adapted into a feature film in 2001. While Pang was still a television and radio host, he decided to fulfil his dream of being a film director, Pang directed the horror film, Ghost, which featured in the Tribeca Film Festival 2010. Muse Magazine film critic Perry Lam has praised Pang for often demonstrat a Kafkaesque talent for seeing the absurd in the realities of everyday life. His feature film Love in the Buff opened the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival, the film is a sequel to the successful romance Love in a Puff. Both star Miriam Yeung Chin-wah and Shawn Yue Man-lok and you Shoot, I Shoot Isabella Exodus Trivial Matters 指甲刀人魔 假戏真做 谎言大作战 爱在微博蔓延时 Fulltime Killer You Shoot, I Shoot Men Suddenly in Black Beyond Our Ken A. V. V
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Shor in the City
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The background score of the film was composed by Roshan Machado. The first look of the film was unveiled on 21 March 2011 while the film was released in India on 28 April 2011, the film revolves around five central characters in the city of Mumbai. Abhay is a NRI who returns to India to start his own small business, sawan is a young cricketer hoping to break into the under-22 Mumbai cricket team. The story focuses on their trials and tribulations as they battle life in the city of Mumbai during the period of the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. The film tries to deal with concepts of chance, the constant struggle between hope and despair and self-actualization. The opening of the movie starts with the song Karma is a bitch which fits in with the theme of the story where the characters of the film keep trying to come to terms with their own actions. Abhay has a dark past which is not revealed in the film, the goons who traumatize Abhay eventually end up being shot by their own bullets on the day of Ganesha Visarjan. Tilak gets a new life and finds his treasure at home, sawan gives up the money he finds at the bank robbery and instead focuses on improving his game for cricket selections and gets support from Sejaltoo. Ramesh is seen applying for jobs and Mandook protesting at a rally, towards the end of the movie all characters move on different paths.5 million on P&A, with total investment coming to around 60 million. Trade analysts estimated that around 50% of this will be recovered from non-theatrical revenue, balaji Motion Pictures, head of distribution and acquisition Girish Johar says We gave Shor in the City a tight release of around 500 screens across the country and the film found appreciation. It grossed around 38.5 million in just 4 days and adding the revenue from non-theatrical rights, the film was well received by critics. Aniruddha Guha of the Daily News and Analysis gave it three stars and said Shor in the City is the kind of reassuring film you yearn to watch amid, well, also, it articulates something you have only probably thought before – Karma IS a bitch. Rediff awarded the four stars and said Raj-Krishnas Shor in the City robotically registers itself in Indian cinemas history. Anupama Chopra of NDTV gave the four stars and wrote Shor in the City is a terrific film. It’s surprising and disturbing and has a vein of rich, dark humor coursing through it, shubhra Gupta of the Indian Express gave it a three star rating and commented What makes Shor in the City an instant clutter-breaker is its darkly comic treatment. It makes you smile because its humour comes from within, and it’s got heart, we feel for the characters. Tushar Joshi of MiD DAY gave it a four star rating and wrote Loaded with humor, sarcasm and that truly is the beauty of the makers who succeed in arresting you with their tales. The spectacular climax is one of the best written in recent times
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Outrage (2010 film)
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Outrage is a 2010 Japanese yakuza film directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano. It competed for the Palme dOr at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and it is followed by a 2012 sequel, Beyond Outrage. Kato orders Ikemoto to bring the unassociated Murase-gumi gang in line, and he passes the task on to his subordinate Otomo. Shortly thereafter an incident occurs at a nightclub owned by Murase where a man posing as a customer is inadvertently put through a shakedown for about one million yen. It turns out that this is a member of the Ikemoto family who has been planted into the nightclub in order to help set-off the conditions for a gang war against the Murase family. He accepts Ikemotos advice several times not suspecting any ill-intentions from Ikemoto and each time he further weakens his strength, his resources, in one incident, Otomo leaves vicious scars on the face of Kimura who is Murases chief lieutenant. He was reluctant to label it as a return to his roots, when writing the screenplay, Kitano started by inventing the ways in which characters would be killed in the film, and thereafter wrote a story that would go along with the violence. The film was produced by Office Kitano with Bandai Visual, TV Tokyo, per the producers suggestion no actors who had appeared in earlier Kitano films were cast, with the director himself as an exception. It was shot in CinemaScope from 23 August to 23 October 2009, filming locations included Kobe and Ibaraki Prefecture. The film premiered in competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened on 17 May 2010, the Japanese premiere followed on 12 June through a collaboration between Office Kitano and the Japanese subsidiary of Warner Bros. The film had a revenue of 1,597,856 dollars from 155 screens during the opening weekend, as of 4 July 2010, Box Office Mojo reported a total revenue of 7,230,528 dollars in the domestic market. Jesse Cataldo of Slant Magazine gave Outrage 3.5 out of 4 stars, club gave the film a C, and Kevin Jagernauth of IndieWire gave the film a C- rating. Rob Nelson of Variety described the film as a beautifully staged marvel that confidently reasserts Kitanos considerable cinematic gifts, Kitano returned to Keiichi Suzuki for the complete soundtrack to his film Outrage, the same Japanese composer Kitano had collaborated with for the complete soundtrack to his Zatoichi film. It was their collaboration on a complete soundtrack for a Kitano film together. Official website Official website Outrage at the Internet Movie Database Outrage at Rotten Tomatoes
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Takeshi Kitano
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Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese comedian, television personality, director, actor, author, and screenwriter. While he is primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan. With the exception of his works as a director, he is known almost exclusively by the stage name Beat Takeshi. Kitano rose to prominence in the 1970s as one half of the comedy duo Two Beat, before going solo, after several small acting roles, he made his directorial debut with 1989s Violent Cop and garnered international acclaim for Sonatine. But he was not accepted as a director in Japan until Hana-bi won the Golden Lion in 1997, in December 2016, it was announced that Kitanos first crime trilogy for the Outrage series would be completed in 2017 with Outrage, Final Chapter in post-production as of April 2017. Many of Kitanos films are dramas about yakuza gangsters or the police, many of his films express a bleak or nihilistic philosophy, but they are also filled with humor and affection for their characters. Takeshi Kitano was born in Adachi, Tokyo with two brothers and an older sister. His father worked as a painter, with Kitano revealing that he was also possibly a yakuza, while his mother was a strict disciplinarian. In his working-class neighborhood, the children looked up to players and yakuza. Kitano entered Meiji University and studied engineering, before dropping out at age 19 and he went to the Asakusa district in 1972 to become a comedian. While working as an operator at the Asakusa France-za striptease, he became an apprentice of its comedian Senzaburo Fukami. In the 1970s, he formed a duo with his friend Nirō Kaneko. They took on the stage names Beat Takeshi and Beat Kiyoshi and this sort of duo comedy, known as manzai in Japan, usually features a great deal of high-speed back-and-forth banter between the two performers. Kiyoshi played the man against Takeshis funny man. In 1976, they performed on television for the first time and became a success, the reason for their popularity had much to do with Kitanos material, which was much more risqué than traditional manzai. The targets of his jokes were often the socially vulnerable, including the elderly, the handicapped, the poor, children, women, the ugly, complaints to the broadcaster led to censorship of some of Kitanos jokes and the editing of offensive dialogue. Kitano confirmed in a interview that he was forbidden to access the NHK studios for five years for having exposed his body during a show when it was totally forbidden. Although Two Beat was one of the most successful acts of its kind during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kitano decided to go solo, together with Sanma Akashiya and Tamori, Kitano is said to be one of the Big Three television comedians of Japan
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Pinoy Sunday
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Dado Tagalog and Manuel dela Cruz are two Overseas Filipino workers employed with Giant Bicycles in Taiwan. While Dado misses his wife and daughter back home, he has been dating a Personal Care Assistant named Anna, meanwhile, Manuel has hopelessly been in love with a club hostess named Cecilia. One Sunday after Church, a chain of events occurs between the two friends, Manuel tries to ask Cecilia out on a date when he spots her at a hair salon. He does her a favor by buying mango ice drinks for Cecilia and her companions, Dado foolishly decides to break up with Anna on her birthday, which he had forgotten all along. As the duo talk about their experiences over lunch, they notice a Taiwanese couple arguing over a red couch that is delivered on their doorstep. When the couple and delivery workers abandon the couch, Manuel sees it as a sign from God and decides that he and Dado bring it back to their dormitory. After a friend overcharges them for offering to deliver it on his truck, in the middle of their journey, they cross a street when a drunk motorcyclist collides with the couch. The motorcyclist argues heavily with the duo until all three men are sent to the station when the motorcyclist accidentally hits a policewoman with his helmet. At the precinct, Manuel begins to fear of being deported when an officer if the duo stole the couch. After walking for a few kilometers, the duo rest on the couch when an Ilonggo woman in a taxicab meets them and they fall asleep during the trip and wake up to discover that they are at a recycling plant. The duo get into an argument and Dado threatens to leave Manuel at the plant, after they run away from the reporter, she broadcasts a report on them, asking if they are thieves or heroes. As night falls, the duo ditch the shopping cart to cross the river in a shortcut, Manuel finally admits that they wont make it in time before the curfew, but Dado encourages him to relax. Dado calls Anna and asks for forgiveness, while the dormitory gate closes for curfew, Manuel and Dado spend the rest of the night singing on the couch floating on the river. The next morning, the duo wake up and take a bus home, Manuel and Dado return to the Philippines, where they relax by the beach before going home by tricycle. They talk about what to eat for dinner before thinking about running a furniture business, Best New Director - Wi Ding Ho Best Picture Official website Pinoy Sunday at the Internet Movie Database
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Please Do Not Disturb
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Please Do Not Disturb is a 2010 tri-segmented Iranian anthology film written and directed by Mohsen Abdolvahab, starring Baran Kosari in the lead role. It is produced and cinematographed by Mohammad Ahmadi and it is Abdolvahabs first full length feature film. It was critically acclaimed and has won many accolades, including the Silver Award at the 18th Damascus International Film Festival. It was premiered at the 28th Fajr International Film Festival, and was released in 2010 at 15th Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. It was screened at the 7th Dubai International Film Festival, and was the film at the International Film Festival of Kerala. It was also screened at the International Film Festival of India, the film is set in contemporary Tehran, and portrays the city life in three distinctive episodes of sentiment, sensitivity and wit. In the first story, we see a woman who has been beaten by her husband. The woman is about to complain legally, but the husband is concerned about his job, the next story is about a clergyman whose wallet and documents have been stolen. The clergyman tries to get the back from the thief. The last story is the story of a couple whose TV has broken. The couple is alone in the building and is afraid of opening the door to the young repairman, Baran Kosari as Roushanak Afshin Hashemi Hedayat Hashemi Shirin Yazdanbakhsh Mohsen Kazemi Hamed Behdad Official website Please Do Not Disturb at the Internet Movie Database
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Reign of Assassins
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Reign of Assassins is a 2010 wuxia film directed by Su Chao-pin and co-directed by John Woo. The film is shot in China and set during the Ming Dynasty, the film stars Michelle Yeoh, who plays an assassin who tries to return to a normal life after being counseled by a monk. After saving her husband and herself from robbers, she attracts the attention of her former assassin gang, the film began production on October 30 and was shot in China and Taiwan. While shooting, John Woo was on set continually advising director Su Chao-pin, Reign of Assassins had its premiere on September 3,2010 at the 67th annual Venice Film Festival, where it met acclaim from critics. It premiered in China on September 28,2010 and has purchased by The Weinstein Company for North American release rights. A narration tells of a legendary Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhi, the Dark Stone gang, having found that half of the remains are in the Prime Minister Zhangs hands, sends assassins to kill him and his son Renfeng. Dark Stones top assassin Drizzle steals the remains and flees and she encounters the monk Wisdom after dispatching a pursuing Renfeng at the top of a bridge. Wisdom is revealed to be a martial artist who demonstrates to Drizzle that her swordsmanship has four fatal flaws. Warning that she can be killed by a master, he attempts to persuade her to turn a new leaf, the three months of their association ends with him dying by her hands, a final demonstration intended to enlighten her. After Wisdoms death, Drizzle is burdened with sorrow and guilt and she goes to a famous surgeon who changes her appearance and she assumes the identity of Zeng Jing, a common cloth merchant. She attracts the attention of the messenger Ah-sheng whom she eventually marries, the Dark Stone gangs leader, Wheel King, recruits and trains a new assassin, Turquoise, a merciless girl who murdered her fiance and in-laws on her wedding night. The Dark Stone, are still in pursuit of Drizzle and the mummified remains, later, Zeng Jing and Ah-sheng are in the bank when robbers enter. As the gang draws their swords, Zeng Jing defeats them and this act reveals her whereabouts to Dark Stone. The Wheel King summons three assassins in his gang - Lei Bin, the Magician, and Turquoise - to hunt Drizzle down and they locate Drizzle despite her changed appearance. After the Dark Stone secure the remains, Drizzle hands over her half, the gang refuses to release her, and despite infighting that kills the Magician, she comes home wounded and collapses before Ah-sheng. Lei Bin and Turquoise follow her but are stopped by Ah-sheng, Lei Bin recognizes them as Renfengs weapons. The two assassins are defeated and Ah-sheng takes Drizzle to the surgeon, who treats Drizzles wounds, flashbacks reveal that Ah-shengs true identify is Renfeng, who did not die from Drizzles sword because he has situs inversus. He has also changed his appearance so that he can avenge his fathers death, Drizzle finds out the truth and asks Renfeng if he has ever loved her
