Iconoclastic Incubator
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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.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Kappa
drawing at the bottom by an author.
Akira Kurosawa made “Rashomon” world famous with Toshiro Mifune playing the bandit.
(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.
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(Scroll down to see the tiger by Hokusai.)
Metropolitan Museum Exhibition (January 29, 2022 – January 17, 2023}
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)
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?
(Nancy Kwan, Bruce Lee and Sharon Tate)
(Sharon Tate with Vittorio Gassman )
Vittorio Gassman (previous post)
The Atlantic – Bikeshare oversupply in China.
(Unexpected Beauty China bicycle graveyards share in pictures )
Bikers by
Zhang Hongtu or Mr Momao
Zhang Hongtu – Scroll image (2008)
Yi Yi 
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.
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.
(Three Times)
Winners at Cannes 2015 – Hou Hsiao Hsien for directing the Aassassin.
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.
(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.
Dystopic Visions from the movie sets of Wong Kar Wai
See a short video by Wong Kar Wai – Shanghai Diva here.
(From Happy Together)
Liu Xiaobo: China’s most prominent dissident dies
Liu Xiaobo persuaded student protesters to leave Tianamen Square.
Liu Xiaobo
(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.
