{"id":7887,"date":"2011-03-05T17:03:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-06T03:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T03:03:43","slug":"Why-Asian-Films-are-More-Interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=7887","title":{"rendered":"Why Asian Films are More Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The movie awards season continues this month with the fifth annual Asian Film Awards scheduled for March 21 in Hong Kong.  Twenty-nine films from across Asia are competing in 14 \u00adcategories. Leading this year\u2019s nominations\u2014with six each, \u00adincluding best film\u2014are the \u00adChinese adventure comedy \u201cLet the Bullets Fly\u201d and the Japanese thriller \u201cConfessions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00adChinese adventure comedy \u201cLet the Bullets Fly\u201d<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ggYxf08U418\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2007 and \u00adorganized by the Hong Kong \u00adInternational Film Festival \u00adSociety, the AFA aims to lift the \u00adprofile of the region\u2019s filmmakers and \u201cplay an important role in promoting the development of the Asian film industry,\u201d according to AFA Director Yuet-fung Ho.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Japanese thriller \u201cConfessions&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F73eXXiMwB4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The winners are selected by a panel of 13 jurors from the film industry in Asia and Europe. This year\u2019s jury president is Hong Kong-based director Yonfan, whose films include \u201cBugis Street\u201d (1995) and \u201cPrince of Tears\u201d (2009). A new digitally \u00adrestored version of his 1988 film, \u201cLast Romance,\u201d starring Maggie Cheung, will screen during the film festival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/scene\/2011\/03\/03\/why-asian-films-are-more-interesting\/\" title=\"SOURCE\">SOURCE<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie awards season continues this month with the fifth annual Asian Film Awards scheduled for March 21 in Hong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Joshua","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"1","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The movie awards season continues this month with the fifth annual Asian Film Awards scheduled for March 21 in Hong","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":234,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Joshua","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1213"},"magazine_blocks_comment":1,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}