Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards wrapped things up Saturday with China’s “Beijing Blues” winning the Best Feature Film award. The movie, which also won Best Cinematography and Best Editing, pivots around a plain-clothed police detective who browses and patrols the everyday Beijing. “Every crime, every arrest and every ounce of mercy he can muster, he fights the endless battle with his soul.”
Director Gao Qun Shu (“The Tokyo Trial”) was apparently overwhelmed by the award telling that he never thought his name would be involved with an award of proportion like Golden Horse’s. (The Golden Horse Award is considered the Chinese cinema’s Oscars.) “I’m just an amateur director,” he tells amiably later in his acceptance speech.
“Thank you, thank you,” closing it.
Meanwhile, other awards went to a lot of unsurprising names like Johnnie To (he is so hot right now) who brought home the Best...
Director Gao Qun Shu (“The Tokyo Trial”) was apparently overwhelmed by the award telling that he never thought his name would be involved with an award of proportion like Golden Horse’s. (The Golden Horse Award is considered the Chinese cinema’s Oscars.) “I’m just an amateur director,” he tells amiably later in his acceptance speech.
“Thank you, thank you,” closing it.
Meanwhile, other awards went to a lot of unsurprising names like Johnnie To (he is so hot right now) who brought home the Best...
- 11/25/2012
- by ArmandDC
- AsianMoviePulse
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- 5/27/2010
- Vanity Fair
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