E' stato annunciato il titolo del film a sorpresa della Opening Night di venerdì 29 aprile 2011 del Far East Film Festival 13: si tratta di The Lost Bladesman dagli autori dell’indimenticabile saga di Infernal Affairs, Alan Mak & Felix Chong. La pellicola è un wu xia pian hongkonghese che racconta le epiche gesta di Guan Yu, guerriero dal leggendario coraggio vissuto nella Cina antica. Presentato a Udine come International Festival Premiere, il film debutterà sugli schermi asiatici il prossimo 28 aprile 2011.

Ecco i numeri del prossimo Far East Film Festival:

87 titoli;

15 anteprime internazionali;

18 anteprime europee;

14 anteprime italiane;

1 anteprima mondiale

Dodici i paesi dell'Estremo Oriente presenti a questa edizione: Cina, Corea del Sud, Hong Kong, Filippine, Giappone, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailandia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malesia e, per la prima volta, Mongolia.

Tre saranno i film d’apertura: Welcome To Shama Town, in anteprima europea, l’Horror Cult Night Fishing, in anteprima italiana, e l’anteprima internazionale di The Lost Bladesman.

Due le retrospettive: la prima, L’ASIA RIDE!, incentrata sulla commedia asiatica, con catalogo a cura di Roger Garcia e in cui grande spazio sarà dato al comico hongkonghese Michael Hui; al seconda, PINK EIGA, sui film erotici giapponesi.

Gli ospiti di quest'anno:

CHINA

LU Yang, producer, Welcome to Shama Town

LI Yu, director, Buddha Mountain

FANG Li, producer, Buddha Mountain

CHOI Kwang-suk, producer, The Piano in a Factory

CHEN Daming, director, What Women Want

Chris LIU, producer, What Women Want

HONG KONG

Michael HUI, actor/director, ASIA LAUGHS! Chicken and Duck Talk, Games Gamblers Play, The Private Eyes, The Warlord

Albert LEE, producer, The Stool Pigeon

Freddie WONG, director, The Drunkard

Clement CHENG, director, Doing It Right!

LAW Wing-cheong, director, Punished

INDONESIA

Sidi SALEH, director/producer, Belkibolang

JAPAN

SEGAWA Masaharu, director, ASIA LAUGHS! The Drifters: Hey Suckers!! Here We Come!!, A Man's Weak Point Topsy-Turvy Journey

MORIYA Kentaro, director, Seaside Motel

HIROKI Ryuichi, director, The Lightning Tree

ASAKURA Daisuke, producer, Pink Wink - A Tribute to Asakura Daisuke

SAKAMOTO Rei, director, Pink Wink - A Tribute to Asakura Daisuke

MAEDA Koji, director, Cannonball Wedlock

MALAYSIA

Gaya PILLAI, producer, Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah

Mamat KHALID, director, Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah

MONGOLIA

Bat-Ulzii BAATAR, director, Operation Tatar

Myagmar YESUNMUNKH, producer, Operation Tatar

THE PHILIPPINES

Quark HENARES, director, Rakenrol

Eugene DOMINGO, actress, Here Comes the Bride

Chris MARTINEZ, director, Here Comes the Bride

SOUTH KOREA

LEE Jeong Beom, director, The Man from Nowhere

KIM Sungwoo, producer, The Man from Nowhere

KIM Min-suk, director, Haunters

SONG Dae-chang, producer, Haunters

JANG Jin, director, Romantic Heaven

RYOO Seung wan, producer/director, Troubleshooter/The Unjust

RYOO Seung bum, actor, Foxy Festival/The Unjust

LEE Hae-young, director, Foxy Festival

THAILAND

Tom WALLER, director, Mindfulness and Murder

LI Weiran, director, Welcome to Shama Town

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