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On January 22nd, Ziyi was in Florence, Italy to attend the launch of a special capsule collection of the Italian children’s clothing brand I Pinco Pallino.
Category: Public Appearances
The new 3D cut of “The Grandmaster” was released on Monday 5th january and the cast of the film attended various promotional events in Beijing. Wong Kar-wai, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chang Chen, Zhang Jin and Wang Qingxiang were all there to promote the film. During a press conference, “the director and cast members were asked to express the unique flavour of each other” and Wong Kar-wai compared Ziyi to an onion:
As to his leading lady Zhang Ziyi, Wong said, “She is like an onion. She is spicy and crunchy, a northern specialty. The flavour is sweeter when it’s more mature.”
Yesterday the cast attended a press conference with martial artists.
Yesterday the cast of “The Crossing” was in Beijing for a press conference…
Woo says he believes audiences will enjoy the movie no matter what culture they are from:
“In the past, people thought that only action films or martial arts were understood universally, but in reality I don’t think that is correct. If we can appreciate western types of love stories, I am sure they can also appreciate and understand our Oriental type of love stories.”
The film’s leading actress, Zhang Ziyi, also shared her hopes that “The Crossing” will be well-received both at home and abroad, emphasizing the hard work both cast and crew put into the epic.
And the premiere of the film!
The promotion for The Crossing continues. John Woo, Tong Dawei were in Chengdu yesterday to attend the press conference. Ziyi was lovely as usual!
Stay tuned for the promotion in Beijing!
Yesterday, Tong Dawei and Ziyi were in Wuhan to promote The Crossing.
Today, John Woo, Tong Dawei and Ziyi were promoting The Crossing in Guangzhou. Some pictures in the gallery.
In the next few days, Ziyi will be promoting the film in Wuhan, Chengdu and Beijing. Stay tuned!
Yesterday, Ziyi was in Taiwan to attend the 51st Golden Horse Awards. The actress was on stage with Aaron Kwok to give the “best actor” award to Chen Jianbin in the film “A fool”.
The 45th International Film Festival of India, opened in Goa on Thursday. Zhang Ziyi and Tony Leung attended the opening ceremony. Wong Kar-wai’s ‘The Grandmaster’ will close the festival. The Hong Kong-based director will also receive the lifetime achievement award on the last day of the extravaganza. Source.
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi, who has worked with celebrated Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai in ‘The Grandmaster’, says he has a unique style of working.
Ziyi, 35, said that the star-cast shot the film, which is also the closing movie of the ongoing International Film Festival of India, without any script.
“Wong Kar Wai is my master. He gave me the opportunity to star in his last project ‘The Grandmaster’. He has a unique style of filmmaking.
“He shoots his films without scripts and we shot ‘The Grandmaster’ also in that way. We didn’t know the whole story in the beginning but we started understanding it gradually with each day on the set,” Ziyi told PTI.
Wong Kar Wai will receive the lifetime achievement award at IFFI.
The ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ actress has been part of both Chinese and American films. Ziyi also expressed her desire to star in an Indian film especially for its enchanting music.
“I have watched many Indian films since my childhood. I really like the beautiful music of Indian films and I hope that we soon will try to incorporate such quality in our films. Indian love stories really touch me,” said the actress who is representing China, which is the focus country of the festival.
During her maiden visit to India, she met actor Anupam Kher and is impressed with his filmography.
“Anupam Kher has done 418 films and now I have started worshipping him. He said he loved my latest work ‘The Grandmaster’,” she said.
Ziyi feels that more Indian films should be sent to China in order to increase knowledge about each other’s cinema.
“In the last 20 years very less Indian films have been sent to China and that’s why this festival is very important to me as I will get to watch Indian films here,” she said.
The ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ actress said the Chinese film industry is in its growing phase.
“Chinese film is growing very fast. People love to go to cinema now. Our box-office scores very quick,” she said.
