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Chinese actor Chen Kun (L) and actress
Fan Bingbing attend the opening ceremony of the Chinese Film Week in the
20th Tokyo International Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 21, 2007. The
Chinese Film Week, one of the important activities of the 2007
Sino-Japanese cultural and sports exchanges, was held in Shibuya, Ebisu,
Roppongi and other fashionable districts of Tokyo, showing "The Knot"
"Call for Love" "Warrior" and other 10 Chinese films on Oct. 20-28.
(Xinhua Photo)
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TOKYO,
Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Film Week curtained up here on Sunday as a
special section of the 20th Tokyo International Film Festival, carrying the
festival organizer's greeting to the 35th anniversary of the normalization of
ties between Japan and China.
The opening ceremony of the China week was held at
central Tokyo's Shibuya Culture Village. The appearance of famous Chinese movie
stars Chen Kun and Fan Bingbing aroused a gust of craze in the cinema hall.
Chen said the films to be shown during the week
reflect beautiful lives and diversified cultures in China. Fan in her part
expressed good wishes for the strengthening of cooperation between Chinese and
Japanese film industries.
Ren Zhonglun, president of Shanghai film corporation
and head of the Chinese delegation to the Tokyo film festival, said in his
speech that to watch film is a kind of direct way to understand and know more
about a foreign country. He hopes that the Japanese audience like Chinese movies
and like Chinese artists related with the film industry.
More than 300 movies around the world are to be shown
on the 8-day 20th Tokyo International Film Festival which opened Saturday. A
total of 15 films are candidates for the main Tokyo Sakura GrandPrix and other
awards under such themes as "Winds of Asia" and "Tokyo in Focus."
Results of the competition will be announce on the
closing day of the festival by the jury, which was headed by U.S. film producer
Alan Ladd Jr.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's
return to its motherland, festival organizer has also arranged a special section
for films from Hong Kong. Four outstanding Hong Kong movies are to be shown
during the 4-day section starting Tuesday.
