Movie stars Zhou Xun and Jelly Lin head the cast of “Imperfect Victim,” a new mainland Chinese drama series that focuses on workplace sexual harassment and leads to a rape trial.
Zhou plays a lawyer who steps in to represent the character played by Lin (“The Mermaid”), who alleges assault by her boss at work. He is portrayed by TV veteran Liu Yijun. The case becomes complicated and Zhou’s character is forced to question her own ethics.
The show is highly topical, given the slowly building #MeToo movement in China. This is being fuelled by numerous instances of sexual discrimination, sexual assault and outright violence towards women, many instances of which have gone viral on Chinese social media before being deleted by censors.
Zhou Xun in “Imperfect Victim.” Courtesy of iQiyi.
The first episode of “Imperfect Victim,” for instance, includes a section on the culture of heavy after-hours drinking...
Zhou plays a lawyer who steps in to represent the character played by Lin (“The Mermaid”), who alleges assault by her boss at work. He is portrayed by TV veteran Liu Yijun. The case becomes complicated and Zhou’s character is forced to question her own ethics.
The show is highly topical, given the slowly building #MeToo movement in China. This is being fuelled by numerous instances of sexual discrimination, sexual assault and outright violence towards women, many instances of which have gone viral on Chinese social media before being deleted by censors.
Zhou Xun in “Imperfect Victim.” Courtesy of iQiyi.
The first episode of “Imperfect Victim,” for instance, includes a section on the culture of heavy after-hours drinking...
- 7/18/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet, the latest installment in the long-running Japanese anime franchise, topped the China box office on its opening weekend, grossing $17.1m in its first two days.
The film, which opened in China on April 17, is directed by Nagaoka Tomoka and produced by Tokyo-based Tms Entertainment, with Toho distributing in Japan. It also had a strong start in Japan, which together with its China opening, propelled it to become the highest-grossing film worldwide over the weekend. With the Tokyo Olympics already delayed by a year due to the pandemic, the topicality of the film’s plot may partly explain its success,...
The film, which opened in China on April 17, is directed by Nagaoka Tomoka and produced by Tokyo-based Tms Entertainment, with Toho distributing in Japan. It also had a strong start in Japan, which together with its China opening, propelled it to become the highest-grossing film worldwide over the weekend. With the Tokyo Olympics already delayed by a year due to the pandemic, the topicality of the film’s plot may partly explain its success,...
- 4/19/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
"I was once told that beauty should never be shared." Shanghai Jingshu Pictures has released an official US trailer for the Chinese romantic drama titled Wild Grass, marking the feature directorial debut of director Xu Zhanxiong. The film is a love story and generational drama following the intersecting city lives of several young people in China during the 1990s. In the 1990s, the two girls and a boy who first entered the society tested the incredible destiny they experienced in the pursuit of a new life. In the flourishing 1990s, they rose up with the dream and they survived. Starring Ye Gao, Ma Sichun, Elane Zhong, Johnny Huang, and Sunny Wang. It wasn't expecting much from this, but it's ravishing trailer. I love the vibrant title cards, I love the dance sequences, the film looks passionate and intensely emotional. This might be a nice discovery. Here's the official US trailer...
- 8/24/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The 2018 edition of the New York Asian Film Festival offered a very eclectic selection. Among the more commercial movies the Nyaff featured was the first Chinese movie made by Taiwanese director Kevin Ko: “Dude’s Manual”.
“Dude’s Manual” screened at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
He Xiaoyan is finishing university. Because of an incident that happened at the beginning of his college-time, the young man earned the nickname ‘Air-Pump’. In other words, no girls want to be seen with this pervert and he doesn’t even dare to dream about losing his virginity. The problem is that the whole campus believes that Guan Xin, one of the most popular girls, is seeing the unlucky young man. The beautiful lady decides to take matters into her own hands and to make a couple out of Air-Pump and Li Shushu, other campus-beauty.
Parallelly to the trio story, we...
“Dude’s Manual” screened at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
He Xiaoyan is finishing university. Because of an incident that happened at the beginning of his college-time, the young man earned the nickname ‘Air-Pump’. In other words, no girls want to be seen with this pervert and he doesn’t even dare to dream about losing his virginity. The problem is that the whole campus believes that Guan Xin, one of the most popular girls, is seeing the unlucky young man. The beautiful lady decides to take matters into her own hands and to make a couple out of Air-Pump and Li Shushu, other campus-beauty.
Parallelly to the trio story, we...
- 7/31/2018
- by Oriana Virone
- AsianMoviePulse
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