Archive for the 'China' Category

A Stranger in Shanghai Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Diary

Thursday, January 5th, 2023
  • NHK World on Demand till June 2023

    China is tumultuous in 1921 when the famed Japanese author of Rashomon, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, visits Shanghai as a correspondent. Here he encounters revolutionaries, courtesans and much more…

    Ryuhei Matsuda who played Ryunosuke Akutagawa was directed by Nagisa Oshima in Gohatto (御法度), also known as Taboo.

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    drawing at the bottom by an author.
    Akira Kurosawa made “Rashomon” world famous with Toshiro Mifune playing the bandit.

  • The Rider is my favorite film directed by Chloe Zhao

    Thursday, March 31st, 2022

  • (Chloe Zhao and Brady Jandreau)

    See their interview on youtube here

  • How, horse, actors, six man crew Chloe Zhao made Rider (Film Independent blog)

  • Happy birthday Chloe Zhao !

    In 2017, Zhao directed The Rider, a contemporary western drama, which follows a young cowboy’s journey to self-discovery after a near-fatal accident ends his professional riding career.[38] The film was executive produced by her father, Yuji Zhao.[39] As with her first feature, Zhao engaged a cast of non-actors who lived at the filming location, in this case on a ranch.[40] Her inspiration came from Brady Jandreau—a cowboy she had met and befriended on the reservation where she shot her first film—who suffered a severe head injury when thrown from his horse during a rodeo competition.[41] Jandreau would star in the film, playing a fictionalized version of himself as Brady Blackburn

    Zhao now resides in the Topatopa Mountains in Ojai, California with three chickens, Red, Cebe, and Lucille and two dogs, Taco and Rooster[81] and her partner and cinematographer, Joshua James Richards.[11] Richards and Zhao met while Zhao was researching for her first feature film Songs My Brother Taught Me and Richards was still a film student at NYU. He has been her cinematographer for her next two films and served as camera operator on Marvel’s Eternals.

    Happy Chinese Lunar Year of the Tiger – 2022

    Monday, January 31st, 2022

  • (By Kano Tsunenobu)
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    (Scroll down to see the tiger by Hokusai.)

  • Metropolitan Museum Exhibition (January 29, 2022 – January 17, 2023}

  • Kurt Tong- Photography

    Saturday, June 26th, 2021
  • Prix Elysee – Kurt Tong

    Kurt Tong Photography (See more from his homepage)

    Kurt Tong

    1977, born in Hong Kong, China

    Kurt Tong graduated with a Master’s degree in documentary photography at the London College of Communication in 2006. Having grown up in the United Kingdom, his work revolves around exploring his Chinese roots, his upbringing and understanding of his motherland. Using multilayered narratives, his recent work has dealt with the Asian Diaspora, Chinese funeral practices and early Chinese feminism.

    Much of Kurt’s work, whilst deeply rooted in photography, has incorporated other mediums, performative elements and audience participations. Pushing the possibility of photography as a narrative tool.


    (People’s Park – Kurt Tong)

    Better Days – Jackson Yee & Zhou Dongyu

    Saturday, June 5th, 2021
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    Destructiveness of School bullying at the forefront (LA times).

    Facts about two leading actors Zhou Dongyu and Jackson Yee

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    Although Zhou Dongyu looks like a teenager, she is actually 28, born in 1992. And Jackson Yee, born in 2000, is 20. When the movie was filmed, he was only 18. And it was his first time playing the first lead role! Can you tell there is an 8-year age difference between them?

  • Happy Chinese Lunar Year of the Ox 2021- Moo Moo

    Friday, February 12th, 2021
  • Happy Metal Ox

  • Celebrations around the world in pictures (The Guardian)


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  • The year of the Ox 2009

    With a friend

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  • Sharon Tate, Nancy Kwan & Bruce Lee

    Sunday, January 12th, 2020

  • (Nancy Kwan, Bruce Lee and Sharon Tate)


  • (Sharon Tate with Vittorio Gassman )

  • Vittorio Gassman (previous post)

    Graveyard of Over Supplied Bicycles in China

    Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
  • Worker rides a shared bicycle past piled-up shared bikes at a vacant lot in Xiamen

    Shanghai. (Yibo Wang / Shutterstock)

    The Atlantic – Bikeshare oversupply in China.

    (Unexpected Beauty China bicycle graveyards share in pictures )

  • Bikers byZhang Hongtu Zhang Hongtu or Mr Momao

    Zhang Hongtu – Scroll image (2008)

    Edward Yang – A Brighter Summer Day & Yi Yi

    Sunday, November 5th, 2017
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    Lisa Yang and Chang Chen
    A Brighter Summer Day a 4 hours film directed by Edward Yang

  • Edward Yang – 1947-2007
    b. November 6, 1947, Shanghai, China
    d. June 29, 2007, Beverley Hills, USA
    Edward Yang – a profile from Senses of Cinema.

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    Yi Yi on youtube with Portugese subtitles. Here Issey Ogata plays Japanese Bill Gates type computer businessman.

    The kid with a camera says farewell to grandmother here.

    Obit from Steven Shaviro who has seen Edward Yang’s early films.

    I remember being stunned and blown away by The Terrorizer (1986) when I saw it at the Seattle Film Festival: sometime in the late 1980s. It was an elegant, beautifully meditative, and deeply unsettling exploration of urban anomie and alienation, paranoia, and random encounters.

    Chen Chang – A Brighter Summer Days to Assassin, Working with E.Yang, WKW, A.Lee to H.H.Hsien,

    Friday, October 13th, 2017
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    Lisa Yang and Chang Chen
    A Brighter Summer Day a 4 hours film directed by Edward Yang

    (Chen Chang born on born 14 October 1976)
    Chang Kuo-Chu, and his son Chang Chen (in his debut) are both cast in this film playing father and son.

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    Hou Hsiao Hsien

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    Winners at Cannes 2015 – Hou Hsiao Hsien for directing the Aassassin.

    The Assassin trailer here.

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    Eros -Wong Kar Wai (Gong Li and Chen Chang)

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    Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon directed by Ang Lee. (Chan Cheng and Zhang Zheyi have made many films together including The Grandmasters since then.)

    Chen was directed by Kim Ki Duk in Breath (his only Korean film)

    More photos of him at Pinterest.

    Wing Shya, Hong Kong Photographer Who Collaborated with Wong Kar Wai

    Sunday, July 16th, 2017
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    (Photo of Maggie Cheung by Wing Shya)

    Wing Shya (See more here)

    In 1997, appointed as the exclusive photographer and graphic designer; Shya began his collaboration with the renowned movie director, Wong Kar-Wai on Happy Together, continued then on In the Mood for Love, Eros and 2046.

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    Dystopic Visions from the movie sets of Wong Kar Wai

  • See a short video by Wong Kar Wai – Shanghai Diva here.

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    (From Happy Together)

  • RIP Liu Xiaobo Most Prominent Dissident Died, (December 28, 1955, July 13, 2017)

    Thursday, July 13th, 2017
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    Sad news ..

    Liu Xiaobo: China’s most prominent dissident dies

  • Liu Xiaobo persuaded student protesters to leave Tianamen Square.

  • The Passion of Liu Xiaobo

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    (Photo by his wife before his arrest)
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    Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, who was China’s most prominent human rights and democracy advocate, has died aged 61.
    The activist had been serving an 11-year prison term for “subversion” and was recently moved to a hospital due to a terminal liver cancer.
    A university professor turned tireless rights campaigner, Mr Liu was branded a criminal by authorities.
    The Nobel Committee said the Chinese government bore a “heavy responsibility” for his death.
    The campaigner was repeatedly jailed throughout his life. When not in prison, he was subject to severe restrictions while his wife, Liu Xia, was placed under house arrest.