Atsuko Hirayanagi on Oh Lucy! executive producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay: "I started warning people. Because I don't want them to feel betrayed." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Atsuko Hirayanagi's wanderlust-y debut feature Oh Lucy!, co-written with Boris Frumin and based on her short film, stars Shinobu Terajima (Kôji Wakamatsu's Caterpillar) with Josh Hartnett (John Logan's Penny Dreadful), Kaho Minami (Zhuangzhuang Tian's The Go Master), Shioli Kutsuna (Masatoshi Kurakata's Neko Atsume House), and Kôji Yakusho (Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel).
Executive produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay with terrific work by costume designer Masae Miyamoto (Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone In Love), Oh Lucy!, which had its world premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival and received the Sundance Institute Nhk award in 2016, takes us on an unexpected road trip which made me recall a line from Jean Renoir's The Rules Of The Game (La...
Atsuko Hirayanagi's wanderlust-y debut feature Oh Lucy!, co-written with Boris Frumin and based on her short film, stars Shinobu Terajima (Kôji Wakamatsu's Caterpillar) with Josh Hartnett (John Logan's Penny Dreadful), Kaho Minami (Zhuangzhuang Tian's The Go Master), Shioli Kutsuna (Masatoshi Kurakata's Neko Atsume House), and Kôji Yakusho (Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel).
Executive produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay with terrific work by costume designer Masae Miyamoto (Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone In Love), Oh Lucy!, which had its world premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival and received the Sundance Institute Nhk award in 2016, takes us on an unexpected road trip which made me recall a line from Jean Renoir's The Rules Of The Game (La...
- 3/10/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Death is literally the beginning in the cross-generational relationship drama Love Education, which closes the 2017 Busan International Film Festival today. In depicting a quintessentially Chinese family dispute about burial sites that sets free unspoken sorrows building across half a century, it reveals how the idea and expression of love have evolved in a vastly changed Middle Kingdom.
The movie opens with an aged lady on her dying bed. As per the long-standing tradition of cinematic romanticism, the last flashes of consciousness play out in a dreamy, amorous sequence of remembered bliss with her white-haired beau. Somewhat more surprisingly, no profound parting words seem to come out of her trembling mouth when daughter Huiying (Sylvia Chang), son-in-law Xiaoping (Zhuangzhuang Tian) and granddaughter Weiwei (Yueting Lang) gather around to send grandma off in a moment of heightened sentimentality.
This initially insignificant detail proves to be a source of intrigue later on. Because,...
The movie opens with an aged lady on her dying bed. As per the long-standing tradition of cinematic romanticism, the last flashes of consciousness play out in a dreamy, amorous sequence of remembered bliss with her white-haired beau. Somewhat more surprisingly, no profound parting words seem to come out of her trembling mouth when daughter Huiying (Sylvia Chang), son-in-law Xiaoping (Zhuangzhuang Tian) and granddaughter Weiwei (Yueting Lang) gather around to send grandma off in a moment of heightened sentimentality.
This initially insignificant detail proves to be a source of intrigue later on. Because,...
- 10/21/2017
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
The Warrior And The Wolf
Guest Review by Dog Ate My Wookie
Stars: Jô Odagiri, Maggie Q, Chung Hua Tou | Written and Directed by Zhuangzhuang Tian
More than two thousand years ago the Han Emperor sent his armies far beyond the Gobi Desert in order to subdue the rebellious tribes. It was a treacherous and inhospitable zone where winter came and the land belonged to the wolves and snow. After a long battle Commander Lu begins the retreat as winter sets in but his troops become stranded in the village of the ‘cursed’ Harran tribe. Trapped, Lu takes refuge in an apparently abandoned hut only to discover that he’s not alone, a Harran widow lives there and he takes a fancy, the pair become embroiled in a ‘passionate affair’ but Lu does not comprehend the price that they will pay for their passions.
Let’s start with the good:...
Guest Review by Dog Ate My Wookie
Stars: Jô Odagiri, Maggie Q, Chung Hua Tou | Written and Directed by Zhuangzhuang Tian
More than two thousand years ago the Han Emperor sent his armies far beyond the Gobi Desert in order to subdue the rebellious tribes. It was a treacherous and inhospitable zone where winter came and the land belonged to the wolves and snow. After a long battle Commander Lu begins the retreat as winter sets in but his troops become stranded in the village of the ‘cursed’ Harran tribe. Trapped, Lu takes refuge in an apparently abandoned hut only to discover that he’s not alone, a Harran widow lives there and he takes a fancy, the pair become embroiled in a ‘passionate affair’ but Lu does not comprehend the price that they will pay for their passions.
Let’s start with the good:...
- 6/12/2011
- by Guest
- Nerdly
The teaser was nice, but it’s good to get in the full trailer for Zhuangzhuang Tian’s Chinese supernatural period movie “The Warrior and the Wolf”. I’m still not sure if this can be called full-blown epic, but it sure has its share of scenes involving lots of people in heavy armor running around a desert. One presumes they’re running to fight someone, or running to dinner. What am I, psychic? Anyways, the full trailer below. The disillusioned general of an ancient Chinese army regiment finds himself stranded in a village populated by a strange clan with mystical connections to wolves. The cast is led by Maggie Q (”Mission Impossible 3″), Jô Odagiri, and Chung Hua Tou. The film is supposedly due in theaters in China later this year. Via Sina. Thanks to reader “sheyebrow” for the heads up.
- 9/14/2009
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
From what I can tell, veteran Chinese director Zhuangzhuang Tian’s upcoming period epic “The Warrior and the Wolf” has some Chinese soldier types wandering into the desert and getting their fill of some supernatural happenings. Maggie Q. shows up to seduce the hero and have passionate sex by a campfire. Plus, wolves show up in packs. I’m sure there’s more to that, but until a full trailer shows up, here’s a teaser trailer for the movie, which is due out in China late 2009. In the Era of the Warring States, before the unification of China, thousands of soldiers are dispatched to fight the enemy and conquer nomadic tribes. Sent to remote regions at the edges of the known world, the soldiers encounter many adversities, and the brutal challenge of survival often brings out the worst human instincts. But valiant Lu Chenkang (Joe Odagiri) belongs to a different breed.
- 9/7/2009
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Montreal -- The Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday made two last-minute bookings for Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf's "Green Days" and "The Warrior and the Wolf," a combat epic from Chinese director Tian Zhuangzhuang.
The latest film from Mohsen Makhmalbaf's daughter portrays a young woman seeking psychological help amid Iran's political turmoil, and will be shopped in Toronto by Wild Bunch. The eagerly anticipated "Warrior and the Wolf" is produced by Bill Kong ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), and stars Maggie Q.
Fortissimo is shopping rights outside Asia and North America. The two films are among a slew of titles coming into Toronto with significant territories up for grabs, including U.S. indie titles like Barry Levinson's "The Band That Wouldn't Die," Bob Richman's "Ahead of Time," "How to Fold a Flag," from Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein, and Derrick Borte's "The Joneses," the Demi Moore...
The latest film from Mohsen Makhmalbaf's daughter portrays a young woman seeking psychological help amid Iran's political turmoil, and will be shopped in Toronto by Wild Bunch. The eagerly anticipated "Warrior and the Wolf" is produced by Bill Kong ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), and stars Maggie Q.
Fortissimo is shopping rights outside Asia and North America. The two films are among a slew of titles coming into Toronto with significant territories up for grabs, including U.S. indie titles like Barry Levinson's "The Band That Wouldn't Die," Bob Richman's "Ahead of Time," "How to Fold a Flag," from Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein, and Derrick Borte's "The Joneses," the Demi Moore...
- 8/27/2009
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
VENICE, Italy -- British independent distributor Metro Tartan has acquired U.K. rights to U.S. directors Larry Clark and Ed Lachman's Ken Park, sales house Fortissimo Film Sales said. The deal marks the first major territory sale for the hard-core sex-filled American art film set in Visalia, Calif., focusing on four dysfunctional families. The film was met with a generally good critical response after unspooling Tuesday in the Venice Film Festival's competitive Upstream section. "Several American indie distributors are circling it, but we are waiting for Toronto to close a U.S. deal," Wouter Barendrecht, co-chairman of the Amsterdam and Hong Kong-based sales company, said of the deal, which was announced Friday. In Venice, Fortissimo also closed deals on Chinese director Tian Zhuangzhuang's Upstream competition entry Springtime in a Small Town, a drama featuring Chinese teenagers that has been acquired by indie British distributor Artificial Eye for the United Kingdom, by Cinelibre for Benelux and by Ocean for Israel.
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