Qin Hailu and Wang Qianyuan amongst new cast members.
Beijing Galloping Horse has announced four additions to the cast of John Woo’s The Crossing, including award-winning Chinese actress Qin Hailu and actor Wang Qianyuan.
Qin and Wang both previously starred in Chinese drama The Piano In A Factory. Qin’s credits also include Fruit Chan’s Durian Durian, for which she won best actress and newcomer at the Golden Horse Awards. Wang won best actor at the Tokyo International Film Festival for Piano.
Also joining the cast of Woo’s $40m two-part epic are veteran actress Feihong Yu (The Joy Luck Club) and Japanese actress Hitomi Kuroki (Paradise Lost).
Currently in production, The Crossing follows the journey of three doomed couples travelling from mainland China to Taiwan in 1949. The ensemble cast also includes Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Song Hye-kyo, Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei and Japan’s Masami Nagasawa.
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Beijing Galloping Horse has announced four additions to the cast of John Woo’s The Crossing, including award-winning Chinese actress Qin Hailu and actor Wang Qianyuan.
Qin and Wang both previously starred in Chinese drama The Piano In A Factory. Qin’s credits also include Fruit Chan’s Durian Durian, for which she won best actress and newcomer at the Golden Horse Awards. Wang won best actor at the Tokyo International Film Festival for Piano.
Also joining the cast of Woo’s $40m two-part epic are veteran actress Feihong Yu (The Joy Luck Club) and Japanese actress Hitomi Kuroki (Paradise Lost).
Currently in production, The Crossing follows the journey of three doomed couples travelling from mainland China to Taiwan in 1949. The ensemble cast also includes Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Song Hye-kyo, Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei and Japan’s Masami Nagasawa.
Bgh is producing with Woo and Terence Chang’s [link...
- 9/30/2013
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Director Wayne Wang, best known for his adaptation of Amy Tan’s celebrated novel The Joy Luck Club, has kept himself at the forefront of Asian-oriented filmmakers even while making a variety of crowd-pleasing commercial films (Maid in Manhattan, Last Holiday). This collection of two of his latest films, both low-budget works shot on HD, is a great way to get acquainted with a unique filmmaker of considerable skill. Although the films vary in quality of both filmmaking and performance, there is no denying both pose interesting questions about Chinese or general Asian identity and their place in and outside of China.
The stronger of the two films, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, is a meticulous study of character. In the film, an aging Mr. Shi travels to America to visit his daughter Yilan, recently estranged form her husband. Mr. Shi is played by Henry O, until now relegated...
The stronger of the two films, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, is a meticulous study of character. In the film, an aging Mr. Shi travels to America to visit his daughter Yilan, recently estranged form her husband. Mr. Shi is played by Henry O, until now relegated...
- 5/27/2009
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
Director Wayne Wang, best known for his adaptation of Amy Tan’s celebrated novel The Joy Luck Club, has kept himself at the forefront of Asian-oriented filmmakers even while making a variety of crowd-pleasing commercial films (Maid in Manhattan, Last Holiday). This collection of two of his latest films, both low-budget works shot on HD, is a great way to get acquainted with a unique filmmaker of considerable skill. Although the films vary in quality of both filmmaking and performance, there is no denying both pose interesting questions about Chinese or general Asian identity and their place in and outside of China.
The stronger of the two films, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, is a meticulous study of character. In the film, an aging Mr. Shi travels to America to visit his daughter Yilan, recently estranged form her husband. Mr. Shi is played by Henry O, until now relegated...
The stronger of the two films, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, is a meticulous study of character. In the film, an aging Mr. Shi travels to America to visit his daughter Yilan, recently estranged form her husband. Mr. Shi is played by Henry O, until now relegated...
- 5/27/2009
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
Faye Yu And Henry O In Director Wayne Wang'S A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers. Courtesy Magnolia Pictures. Wayne Wang's work has always been about a balance of contrasts, whether it be Chinese and American, classical and experimental, or independent and Hollywood. Wang was born in Hong Kong in 1949 and moved to the U.S. in his late teens to study film and television at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. He made his directorial debut in 1975 with A Man, a Woman, and a Killer (on which he is co-credited alongside Rick Schmidt) but it was his sophomore effort, Chan is Missing (1982), an intimate and realistic portayal of Chinese Americans, that brought him to prominence. He continued to depict immigrants and first...
- 10/1/2008
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
In essence, Wayne Wang's <i>A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers </i>consists of a single critical conversation. But the participants have been putting it off their whole lives, and it takes some building up to. So most of the film consists of empty exchanges and long, quiet pauses; as days pass, they fail to express themselves, and the tension gradually builds, until speaking finally becomes easier than silence. The wait is sometimes keen, sometimes dull. But just as it often happens in real life, once everything finally comes to the surface, it feels anticlimactic. Henry O stars as a Chinese widower visiting his only child, American immigrant and recent divorcée Faye Yu. He's a self-confessed bad father with no understanding of her relationship, her American life, or her adult personality; she's a quiet, withdrawn woman with no interest in baring her soul to her long-estranged dad. So he cooks and.
- 9/26/2008
- by Tasha Robinson
- avclub.com
By Neil Pedley
Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen put their signature on an oater, but they're not the only ones to head west this week . an all-star cast led by Charlize Theron charge into Seattle, Wayne Wang follows the travels of a Chinese scientist visiting his daughter in Spokane, Neil Labute tries vilifying the L.A.P.D. and Ricky Gervais heads across the pond to bring his schtick to an American comedy.
"All of Us"
In this documentary, filmmaker Emily Abt follows Dr. Mehret Mandefro, a young, Ethiopian-born, Harvard-educated physician working in the South Bronx, and her efforts to both treat and bring awareness to the plight of African-American women affected by the HIV virus. Through her research with two of her patients and their own candid stories and circumstances, Dr. Mandefro highlights some of the key factors that have led to a steep increase in the number of...
Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen put their signature on an oater, but they're not the only ones to head west this week . an all-star cast led by Charlize Theron charge into Seattle, Wayne Wang follows the travels of a Chinese scientist visiting his daughter in Spokane, Neil Labute tries vilifying the L.A.P.D. and Ricky Gervais heads across the pond to bring his schtick to an American comedy.
"All of Us"
In this documentary, filmmaker Emily Abt follows Dr. Mehret Mandefro, a young, Ethiopian-born, Harvard-educated physician working in the South Bronx, and her efforts to both treat and bring awareness to the plight of African-American women affected by the HIV virus. Through her research with two of her patients and their own candid stories and circumstances, Dr. Mandefro highlights some of the key factors that have led to a steep increase in the number of...
- 9/15/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, winner of 4 awards at the San Sebastian Film Fest, has been picked up by Magnolia Pictures. Directed by Wayne Wang, the film is a return to his indie roots following a succession of sappy commercial fair including the Queen Latifa starrer Last Holiday and J-Lo’s Maid in Manhattan. The film stars noted character actor Henry Q (The Last Emperor) as a Chinese father who travels to Spokane, Washington to visit his estranged daughter (Faye Yu) and help her following a messy divorce. In the process, he meets an Iranian woman with whom he connects with despite their language barrier... even moreso than he can with his own child. Author Yiyun Li adapted her own Hemingway Award-winning collection of short stories of the same name. Prayers picks right back up with Wang’s interest in exploring strained interpersonal relationships, primarily that between parents and children,
- 4/29/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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