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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,...

Extraordinary Mission Review Extraordinary Mission (2017) Film Review from the 16th Annual New York Asian Film Festival, a movie directed by Alan Mack & Anthony Pun, starring Xuan Huang, Yihong Duan, Feng Zu, Yueting Lang, Jiadong Xing, Yanhui Wang, and Yaoching Wang. A mid-level drug dealer, named Lin Kai (Xuan Huang), was very good at his job. He had to be, because [...]

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Tik Tok is a 2016 South Korean-Chinese action-thriller directed by Li Jun and starring Lee Jung-jae, Wallace Chung, Yueting Lang, Lee Chae-yeong and Yang Fan. It was released in China by China Film Group Corporation on July 15, 2016 and will open in South Korea by Doki Entertainment this month.

Lee Jung-jae has been on a run of hits, which include Choi Dong-hoon’s star-studded The Thieves and period action-thriller Assassination, and the gangster saga New World alongside Hwang Jung-min. His last leading role was the Korean War hit Operation Chromite featuring global name Liam Neeson as General MacArthur. Lee will also be seen alongside Ha Jung-woo in fantasy blockbuster With God (literal title) this summer.

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Guo zhida is under stress after he loses everything to sports betting and suffers from a disability and manic-depression. He is talking to his Chinese shrink Yang xi when Korean police come down on him.

Read More: Well Go USA Acquires Blockbuster Chinese Comedy Sequel 'Lost in Hong Kong' Fortissimo Films has acquired global sales rights to Larry Yang's "Mountain Cry." The film, which won the prize for Best Commercial Potential at last year’s Beijing International Film Festival "Pitch & Catch" event, was just announced yesterday to have its world premiere as the Closing Film of the 20th Busan International Film Festival. The official synopsis reads: "Set in a remote mountain village in China in the mid 1980’s, 'Mountain Cry' weaves a tale that begins with the sudden violent death of a man under unusual circumstances, leaving behind a mysterious widow – a young mute woman (played by Yueting Lang)) with two young children. The now broken family upends the village’s tight-knit traditional community structure. As the local village leaders struggle with how to handle the matter, the widow forms a bond...