One word that no one would ever use to describe Chinese director Zhou Sun is "prolific". His new film, Qiu XI, slated to hit theaters in China on October 14th, is his first since 2002's Zhou Yu's Train. Will it be worth the wait? The new posters and stills from CriEnglish and CriOnline give me hope. Synopsis: The story takes place in wartime Guangzhou before the country's liberation by the Communist Party of China in 1949. A young woman named Qiu Xi is a "boat person", or Tanka, living in the coastal area of Guangdong Province. Qiu Xi, played by actress Jiang Yiyan (Nanking, Nanking), becomes a servant to Yan Haiqing, played by actor Guo Xiaodong (Summer Palace, An Empress And The Warriors). She finds herself falling for the undercover communist agent who works with the Kuomintang regime that ruled China until 1949. The story unfolds as the two fall for each...
- 10/3/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
One word that no one would ever use to describe Chinese director Zhou Sun is "prolific". His new film, Qiu XI, slated to hit theaters in China on October 14th, is his first since 2002's Zhou Yu's Train. Will it be worth the wait? The new posters and stills from CriEnglish and CriOnline give me hope. Synopsis: The story takes place in wartime Guangzhou before the country's liberation by the Communist Party of China in 1949. A young woman named Qiu Xi is a "boat person", or Tanka, living in the coastal area of Guangdong Province. Qiu Xi, played by actress Jiang Yiyan (Nanking, Nanking), becomes a servant to Yan Haiqing, played by actor Guo Xiaodong (Summer Palace, An Empress And The Warriors). She finds herself falling for the undercover communist agent who works with the Kuomintang regime that ruled China until 1949. The story unfolds as the two fall for each...
- 10/3/2009
- 24framespersecond.net
- Tian Zhuangzhuang is becoming the latest fifth generation filmmaker to make the leap into big scale action epics and he has tagged actioner starlet Maggie Q for the lead female role. The actress whose made the leap into English language fair over the past couple of years and most recently contributed to the love poem in New York, I Love You will take over for Tang Wei - who has been banned from, get this, China screens after her risqué turn in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution. Variety reports that The Warrior and the Wolf is a combat epic about two warriors in ancient China and has already begun shooting in Xinjiang province, with an eye to a late 2009 release. Personally I've only caught three of the filmmakers' works - his most celebrated films in The Horse Thief and The Blue Kite and a couple of years back the slow-paced Springtime in a Small Town.
- 9/26/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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