ASIAN SHOWCASE: NEW CHINESE CINEMA PRESENTED BY HAWAII NATIONAL BANK
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
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BUDDHA MOUNTAIN
GUAN YIN SHAN HAWAII PREMIERE
FRIDAY, OCT. 21 | 3:00 PM | REGAL DOLE SATURDAY, OCT. 22 | 11:45 AM | REGAL DOLE CHINA 2011 | MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 105M
DIRECTOR: Li Yu SCREENWRITER: Li Yu, Fang Li PRODUCERS: Fang Li, Ling Junwei CINEMATOGRAPHER: Zeng Jian CAST: Fan Bingbing, Sylvia Chang, Jin Jing, Fei Long, Chen Po Lin
Writer-Director, Li Yu (LOST IN BEIJING), gracefully explores loss and connection in this coming of age film set in the cities and mountainous landscapes of China.
Nan Feng (Fan Bing Bing), Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin), and Fei Zao aka “Fatso” (Fei Long), wander through life enjoying a life of irresponsibility, until for various reasons they move in together and board with Chang Yue Quin (Sylvia Chang), a retired Chinese opera singer, who is mourning the death of her son.
From the beginning, the Trio steal from her, invade her privacy, and cause general havoc in her life and their own, however, surprisingly a strong bond develops between them after she attempts suicide, yearning to be with her son. While restoring a ruined Buddhist Temple in the mountains, they become a surrogate family for each other, the three mature into young adults as Chang teaches her boarders about responsibility, and they in turn teach Chang to let go and live.
A DISAPPEARING VILLAGE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
THURSDAY, OCT. 13 | 8:30 PM | REGAL DOLE FRIDAY, OCT. 14 | 3:45 PM | REGAL DOLE CHINA 2011 | MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 84M
DIRECTOR: Lisheng Lin SCREENWRITER: Lisheng Lin PRODUCERS: Wang Fuguo, Zhan Jincan CINEMATOGRAPHER: Linan Qu CAST: Ziming He, Long Ren, Yifei Tang, Xueqi Wang, Yuchen Zhu
City official, Lu Guo gathers together his friends and younger brother to return to their home village in China’s Yunnan province to bury his father, who has supposedly been killed by the chicken thieves that have been pillaging the community of late. When the young men arrive to find Old Lu alive and well, they wonder exactly why any of them should have been called back and, tempted by the comforts and sentiments of their old home, decide to stay and root-out the chicken thieves.
Parallel to the chicken-thieves is the issue of the villagers’ relocation, which Lu Guo is handling for the government that looks to turn the area into a sanctuary for the local crane population. Lu Guo’s meek but dutiful nature does not help the fact that in order to convince the villagers to move, he must first convince his father, whose checkered history with his younger son, Lu Shan, fuels the rage and bitterness that now maintains the old man’s glacial stubbornness. –Sandy Connell
GREAT WALL MY LOVE / RETURN TICKET
RETURN TICKET / THINK GLOBAL ACT RURAL
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