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cast: Tak Sakaguchi, Shingo Tsurumi, Mei Kurokawa. Working as a mercenary in South America, ex-yakuza Shozo is informed of the death of his gang-boss father. Returning home, Shozo discovers his father’s number-one man double- crossed and assassinated him. Meeting room N111-N112, HKCEC


4:00PM


20 CIGARETTES (Italy) Action/adventure, drama, 94mins. Intramovies. Dir: Aureliano Amadei. Key Cast: Vinicio Marchioni, Carolina Crescentini, Giorgio Colangeli. Meeting room N109-N110, HKCEC


4:30PM


LATE BLOSSOM (Korea) Romantic drama, 118mins. N.E.W. (Next Entertainment World). Dir: Choo


City (9mins); Chinese Buddhism (9mins); The Bund (9mins); Kids’ Kingdom (9mins); An Eternal Lamb (9mins); Paper Road (9mins); Baby Of Galaxy (3mins); Colorful Yunnan (1min); Shaolin Wuzang (3mins); Spirou&fantasia (3mins); Miniavengers (3mins); Haibao Is Coming (6mins); See Through (3mins); The Legend Of Balagansam (3mins); Buzhou-mountain Legend (3mins); A Book Supernatural Being (6mins); Zebra Kobe (9mins); Animen (3mins) Meeting room N209-N210, HKCEC


WOMB


(Germany) 107mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Benedek Fliegauf. Key cast: Eva Green, Matt Smith, Lesley Manville. Rebecca is sent into unremitting grief when misfortune befalls her lover Tommy. She decides to clone him, thus becoming the mother to her beloved.


Chang-mins. Key cast: Lee Soon-Jae, Yoon So-Jung, Song Jae-Ho. Meeting room N101A, HKCEC


Meeting room N201B, HKCEC


2:30PM


AMPHIBIOUS 3D (Netherlands) Action/ adventure, Horror, 86mins. Celsius Entertainment. Dir: Brian Yuzna. Key cast: Michael Pare, Janna Fassaert, Francis Magee. A marine research expedition to the exotic Sumatran Sea encounters a supernatural prehistoric creature resurfacing with a vengeance. Theatre 1, HKCEC


THE EDUCATION (Germany) Drama, 90mins. Media Luna New Films. Dir: Dirk Letter. Key cast: Joseph K Bundschuh, Anke Retzlaff, Anja Kaul. Jan Westheim is completing his last year of training. He wants to do it right. But what is right when the pressure on Jan and his colleagues is constantly growing in times of restructuring?


Meeting room N204-N205, HKCEC


THE KUNOICHI — NINJA GIRL (Japan) Action/ adventure, 65mins. CREi Inc. Dir: Seiji Chiba. Key Cast: Rina Takeda, Mitsuki Koga, Masanori Mimoto. Meeting room N104-N105, HKCEC


3:00PM


IRONCLAD (UK) 116mins. Content Film. Dir: Jonathan English. Key cast: James Purefoy, Paul Giamatti, Kate Mara. True story of a motley crew of battle-hardened warriors, who withstood several brutal and bloody months under siege. Agnes b. CINEMA! Hong Kong Arts Centre


3:30PM


TADA’S DO-IT-ALL HOUSE (Japan) 123mins. Asmik Ace Entertainment, Inc. Dir: Omori Tatsushi. Key cast: Eita, Matsuda Ryuhei. Meeting room N102-N103, HKCEC


YAKUZA WEAPON (Japan) Action/ adventure, 105mins. Nikkatsu Corporation. Dir: Tak Sakaguchi & Yudai Yamaguchi. Key


GLOVE (Korea) Drama, 144mins. CJ Entertainment. Dir: Kang Woo-suk. Key cast: Jung Jae-young, Yu Sun. Meeting room N104-N105, HKCEC


4:15PM


BURKE & HARE (UK) Comedy, 91mins. Dir: John Landis. Key cast: Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher. Hapless entrepreneurs William Burke and William Hare’s opportunistic ‘small- business enterprise’ soon expands to grave-robbing and murder. Meeting room N211-N212, HKCEC


SHOOT THE DUKE (Germany) Action/ adventure, 80mins. action image. Dir: Stephen Manuel. Key cast: Stephen Baldwin, Bettina Zimmermann, Thomas Heinze. Detective Max Rockinsky suffers a terrible setback when Jonathan ‘the Duke’ Mardukas, his key witness against Mafia boss Joe Benuso, is shot on the eve of his testimony. Screening venue: Meeting room N206-N207, HKCEC


THE ULTIMATE WINNER (Singapore) Drama, 100mins. Cornerstone


Pictures. Dir: Li Nanxing. Key cast: Li Nanxing, Chen Zhao Rong Arron, Dai Yang Tian. Theatre 2, HKCEC


4:30PM


THE BURMA CONSPIRACY (France) Action/ adventure, 117mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Jerome Salle. Key cast: Tomer Sisley, Sharon Stone. Theatre 1, HKCEC


ETERNAL (Thailand) Horror, 85mins. Filmhilli Co. Dir: Jit Khamnoedrat. Key cast: Thawatchai Penpakdee, Suranawee Suwiporn. Meeting room N204-N205, HKCEC


FOUR


(Thailand) Horror, 135mins. Dir: Ekasit Thairat. Key Cast: Ananda Everingham, Pakorn Chatborirak. Meeting room N101B, HKCEC


LATE BLOSSOM See box, left


4:45PM


SKY FIGHTERS (China) Action/ adventure, war, 90mins. August First Film Studio. Dir: Ning Haiqiang. Key cast: Wang Ban, Li Guangjie, Huang Yi, Hu Ke, Zhu Xinyun. Yuetian Long is not only a commander but also a combatant who wants and dares to fight a war. Meeting room N202-N203, HKCEC


5:30PM


THE BRIGHT ELEVEN (China) 165mins. Dir: Xiao Yang, Fang Gangliang, Zhang Yadong. Meeting room N111-N112, HKCEC


5:45PM


QUATTRO HONG KONG (Hong Kong) 60mins. Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brillante Mendoza, Stanley Kwan, Ho Yuhang. Key cast: Wai Ying-hong, Cecilia Yip, Chui Tin-yau. Meeting room N102-N103, HKCEC


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