ARTS / CULTURE & LEISURE
By Global Times Published: Apr 28, 2021 06:43 PM
Promotional material for
New Chinese film
Break Through the Darkness, inspired by China s efforts to crack down on organized crime, will hit big screens across the Chinese mainland on Saturday.
Starring Zhang Songwen, Jin Shijia and Li Qian, the crime thriller produced by iQIYI Pictures and Hengye Pictures, directed by Lü Yulai is based on real cases that took place during the country s three-year campaign (2018-20) against organized crime and officials who sheltered criminal organizations.
According to the early audience reviews from prescreenings, the moviegoers have been impressed by the film s realistic presentation of these cases.
ARTS / FILM By Global Times Published: Mar 17, 2021 05:33 PM
Actress Ying Ze Photo: Courtesy of Hengye Pictures
Tracing Her Shadow, a China-Japan coproduction about Japanese war orphans in China will hit big screens in China on Friday.
Starring actresses and actors from China and Japan like Wu Yanshu, Jun Kunimura and Nagase Jungmin, the latest work from Chinese young director Peng Fei tells the sad story of an old Chinese woman who tries to find the missing Japanese daughter she adopted after the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).
Nearly 3,000 Japanese children were left behind in China after the war and were adopted by rural Chinese families. These orphans, including the daughter in the film, began returning to Japan in the 1980s, but they faced a series of difficulties including discrimination and self-identification issues.