Asian films worth seeing

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“The Golden Era” (China/Hong Kong)

Director Ann Hui won best director at last month’s Golden Horse Awards for her three-hour literary epic depicting the troubled life and tumultuous relationships of novelist Xiao Hong, one of China’s most-prominent women writers whose work emerged during in the 1930s. The film employs the unusual technique of characters breaking the fourth wall to address the audience with their recollections of Xiao Hong. Actress Tang Wei (who will be seen next month opposite Chris Hemsworth in Michael Mann’s cyber thriller “Blackhat”) plays the writer, who died in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942 at the age of 30.

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    http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/12/26/best-films-asia-201/?mod=WSJBlog
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