Lan Yu

Cast:

HU Jun as Handong
LIU Ye as Lan Yu
SU Jin as Jingping
LI Huatong as Liu Zheng

Crew:

Director:

Stanley KWAN

Producer:

ZHANG Yongning

Executive Producer:

JIAN Qin

Associate Producers:

YI Feng, ZHOU Bin, James TSIM

Screenplay:

Jimmy NGAI

Production Designer:

William CHANG

Cinematography:

YANG Tao

Original Music:

ZHANG Yadong

Editor:

William CHANG

Sound Design:

WANG Xueyi

Information about Actor / Director:

HU Jun

Hu Jun is widely considered as the most outstanding stage actor of his generation in China. A member of the Beijing People's Art Theatre Company, the country's most prestigious modern-drama troupe, he played Vladimir in the company's ground-breaking production of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", staged both in China and Germany. His many other stage roles include the policeman in the stage version of Zhang Yuan's "East Palace, West Palace", staged at the Edinburgh Festival and elsewhere in Europe and Latin America. His film credits include Xie Yuzhen's "Liehuo Enyuan"(1990), Li Wenhua's "Hei Xue"(1991), Li Ni's "Hei Huo"(1992), Zhang Yuan's "East Palace, West Palace"(1996) and Wang Rui's "Zhongtian Feibao"(1998). He has also been seen in numerous television plays and serials. His performance in the film "East Palace, West Palace" won him the Best Actor Award at the 1997 Tormina Film Festival in Italy.

LIU Ye

Liu Ye was born in 1978. He studied at the Central Drama Academy in Beijing from 1996 to 2000. He is a member of the China Youth Arts Theatre Company. He began acting in films while still a student, notable in the Beijing Film Studio Production "Na Shen, Na Ren, Na Gou"(1998), which won him a Best Supporting Actor nomination in the 1999 Golden Rooster Awards. He was also seen in the epic historical drama "Dream of the Century"(1998) and the drama "Female Officer, Male Private"(1999). "Lan Yu" gives him his first lead role in a film.

Director - Stanley KWAN

Stanley Kwan was born in Hong Kong, 1957. After studying in the Department of Communications in Baptist College, he joined the television station TVB as a trainee actor but soon moved to the production training division. He found himself working as assistant to several young directors who went on to launch a 'new wave' in Hong Kong cinema, including Ann Hui, Yim Ho and Patrick Tam. He soon followed them in moving into the film industry and directed his own first feature in 1985. His second film "Love Unto Waste" was invited into competition in Locarno Film Festival and his third "Rouge" won him a substantial international audience. His 1991 film "Center Stage" won the Best Actress Prize in Berlin Film Festival for Maggie Cheung. In 1997, "Hold You Tight" won both the Alfred Bauer Prize for Innovation ad the Teddy Award for Best Lesbian/ Gay Feature, again in Berlin. In addition to the feature films that have won him worldwide art-house followers, he has directed shorts, documentaries and a short play, which was staged both in Hong Kong and London.

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