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‘The Assassin’ wins big at Asian Film Awards

Edit Taipei Times 18 Mar 2016
Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien’s (侯孝賢) martial arts film The Assassin (聶隱娘) swept the Asian Film Awards in Macau on Thursday, bagging more than half of the 15 prizes awarded, including best film, best actress and best director ... Taiwanese actress Shu Qi (舒淇), who played the assassin, said she was delighted to receive her trophy from French movie star Sophie Marceau ... ....

Movie review: Mojin — the Lost Legend

Edit Taipei Times 24 Dec 2015
It makes no sense to expect Mojin — the Lost Legend (尋龍訣) to make sense ... The film opens with three adventurers entering a subterranean mausoleum ... The story cuts to New York City in the late 1980s, where Wang and his two partners, Hu (Chen Kun, 陳坤) and Shirley (Shu Qi, 舒淇), now live, having retired from tomb raiding ... Film Notes ....

Taipei to host Golden Horse Awards at 7pm

Edit Taipei Times 20 Nov 2015
Taipei is hosting the 52nd Golden Horse Awards today, when 39 movies are to compete for awards in 22 categories. A total of 427 films were submitted for the competition this year, the most ever, and up from 364 last year, while 42 are Taiwanese ... Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (李安) is to team up with actress Shu Qi (舒淇) to hand out the best director award ... ....

Penghu hopes movie will kickstart tourism season

Edit Taipei Times 08 Sep 2015
Owners of hostels in the county and Chuo Ying-chuan (卓英全) of the Ministry of Justice bought tickets for 248 students in Penghu’s Baisha (白沙) and Siyu (西嶼) townships to view the movie ... The movie, the first directed by pop star Richie Jen (任賢齊), stars Taiwanese actress Shu Qi (舒淇) ... ....

Movie review: All You Need is Love 落跑吧愛情

Edit Taipei Times 03 Sep 2015
Pop star Richie Jen (任賢齊) makes his foray into feature filmmaking with All You Need is Love (落跑吧愛情). Sadly, the romantic comedy that Jen co-directs and stars in, is a total clunker. The story, set against the picturesque backdrop of Penghu and starring Taiwanese diva Shu Qi (舒淇), is pretty to look at ... Jen plays the poor local boy, Wu, running a bed and breakfast in Penghu ... 落跑吧愛情 ....

After Cannes, director Hou says next movie to be about Taipei river goddess

Edit Taipei Times 29 May 2015
Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢), who won the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Sunday with his first martial arts film, The Assassin (聶隱娘), said that his next project would be a movie about a river goddess set in the modern era ... Actress Shu Qi (舒淇), the protagonist in The Assassin, would play the role of the river goddess, the 68-year-old director said ... ‘This is how I would like it to be,’” Hou said....

Hou’s directing prize at Cannes thrills Taiwan

Edit Taipei Times 25 May 2015
The nation yesterday celebrated film director Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢) winning the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday night in France. Hou’s film The Assassin (聶隱娘), a martial arts drama set in Tang Dynasty China, stars Taiwanese actress Shu Qi (舒淇) as a trained killer who is sent back to her home province to assassinate its governor, who is also the man she loves, portrayed by Taiwanese actor Chang Chen (張震) ... ....

Taiwan Cultural Center to host film festival in Europe

Edit Taipei Times 23 May 2015
Taiwan is scheduled to launch a movie festival in Europe next week, featuring works by internationally renowned Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢) and other Taiwanese directors, the Taiwan Cultural Center in Paris said ... A martial arts film set in the Tang Dynasty, starring Taiwanese actress Shu Qi (舒淇) and actor Chang Chen (張震), The Assassin is one of 19 entries in the main competition at the current Cannes Film Festival ... ....

‘Ilo Ilo’ and Tsai shine at Golden Horse

Edit Taipei Times 24 Nov 2013
Singaporean director Anthony Chen (陳哲藝) won Best New Director for the film ... Despite competition from Taiwanese actresses Shu Qi (舒淇) and Gwei Lun-mei (桂綸鎂), China’s Zhang Ziyi (章子怡) walked away with her first Golden Horse award for Best Leading Actress for her role in The Grandmaster (一代宗師) from Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai (王家衛) ... ....

‘Grandmaster’ tipped to win Golden Horse awards

Edit Taipei Times 22 Nov 2013
Even as the mercury drops in Taipei, speculation is heating up ahead of today’s 50th Golden Horse Awards, where Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai’s (王家衛) martial arts film The Grandmaster (一代宗師) leads the pack with 11 nods, but faces strong competition ... Hong Kong’s Cherry Ngan (顏卓靈) and Taiwan’s Kwai Lun-mei (桂綸鎂) and Shu Qi (舒淇) are also vying for the award. ....

Director Ang Lee to present Golden Horse for best film

Edit Taipei Times 20 Nov 2013
Two-time Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (李安) will present the best feature film award at the 50th Golden Horse Awards ceremony on Saturday night ... Meanwhile, Zhang Ziyi (章子怡) of China, Hong Kong’s Cherry Ngan (顏卓靈) and Sammi Cheng (鄭秀文), and Taiwan’s Kwai Lun-mei (桂綸鎂) and Shu Qi (舒淇) will vie for the best actress award ... Golden Horse nominees ....
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