“Typhoon was like a meteorite in the midst of a Mandarin-speaking industry mired in propaganda and a resolutely commercial Taiwanese cinema. The film is a raging storm that shakes genres, breaks the conventions of the time and offers the actors their best roles. Pan Lei had already distinguished himself with his original scripts and previous films, which always went outside the official discourse. Here he can indulge his sensuality, as well as his passion for outdoor shots and for characters with an evil nature.” – Wafa Ghermani, Cinemathèque française.
Typhoon is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
A middle aged couple have been manning a remote weather station in the mountains, with their only company being a mailman that occasionally comes there to deliver goods and mail, and a local beautiful girl, Ah-hung, who shows particular interest for the man's experiments on mice. The couple feel the loneliness...
Typhoon is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
A middle aged couple have been manning a remote weather station in the mountains, with their only company being a mailman that occasionally comes there to deliver goods and mail, and a local beautiful girl, Ah-hung, who shows particular interest for the man's experiments on mice. The couple feel the loneliness...
- 2/10/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Taiwan and India in the spotlight at the 30th Vesoul Iff of Asian Cinema
The 30th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema will feature 92 films, including 52 never-before-seen films from 29 countries, under the banner of commitment!
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian director with 60 international awards to his credit, is President of the Jury. Other members include Taiwanese director Zero Chou, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin 2007, Fatemed Motamed-Arya, the most awarded Iranian actress in the history of Iranian cinema, and Japanese actor Shogen, cinema ambassador at the Sea-Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival.
The 17 films in the fiction and documentary competitions come from China, Korea, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bangladesh, Nepal and Taiwan. Four are French premieres, six European premieres, five international premieres and two world premieres.
Feature Film Competition :
China: All Ears by Liu Jiayin – China (Tibet): The Snow Leopard by Pema Tseden – Korea: Work to...
The 30th Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema will feature 92 films, including 52 never-before-seen films from 29 countries, under the banner of commitment!
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian director with 60 international awards to his credit, is President of the Jury. Other members include Taiwanese director Zero Chou, winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin 2007, Fatemed Motamed-Arya, the most awarded Iranian actress in the history of Iranian cinema, and Japanese actor Shogen, cinema ambassador at the Sea-Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival.
The 17 films in the fiction and documentary competitions come from China, Korea, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bangladesh, Nepal and Taiwan. Four are French premieres, six European premieres, five international premieres and two world premieres.
Feature Film Competition :
China: All Ears by Liu Jiayin – China (Tibet): The Snow Leopard by Pema Tseden – Korea: Work to...
- 2/1/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Born in Vietnam in 1927, Pan Lei later immigrated to Taiwan after doing time with the army back in 1943 and joined the Shaw Brothers Studio in 1963 as scriptwriter and director which resulted in “Lovers’ Rock” starring the young and beautiful new star Cheng Pei Pei. Selected as Taiwan’s nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards but not making the shortlist, this Taiwanese film nonetheless did generate fame for both Cheng and Pan.
During the bus ride returning home from the city to her small remote fishing village in Taiwan after her graduation, a young girl from a rich family, Lin Qiu Zi (Cheng Pei Pei) becomes friendly with a young man Qin Yu (Chiao Chuang). Qin immediately takes a shine to her and decides to stay in her village and hooks up with a local fisherman Su Da Gui (Huang Chung Hsin) who had just returned from the sea.
During the bus ride returning home from the city to her small remote fishing village in Taiwan after her graduation, a young girl from a rich family, Lin Qiu Zi (Cheng Pei Pei) becomes friendly with a young man Qin Yu (Chiao Chuang). Qin immediately takes a shine to her and decides to stay in her village and hooks up with a local fisherman Su Da Gui (Huang Chung Hsin) who had just returned from the sea.
- 1/10/2023
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
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