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2003 / Hong Kong=NHK / 105min. / Color
* Venice Film Festival
* Pusan International Film Festival |
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[SYNOPSIS]
Relying only on a landscape painting by her late lover Sam, Maan (Karena Lam) sets out in search of that very landscape. During her travels, she begins to transcribe the diary of Sam (Ekin Cheng) one day at a time in an effort to imprint his memory in her heart and to think about him constantly. However, in spite of her efforts, the memory of Sam gradually fades.
Maan meets a young postman by the name of Lit (Liu Ye) in Qingdao. The kindhearted Lit, who likes to draw children's pictures in his pare time, falls secretly in love with Maan and ends up helping her look for the landscape. While searching, the two of them start to doubt that the place in the painting really exists. This is because the unfinished painting left behind by Sam shows nothing more than a withered tree on top on a mountain that nobody recognizes.
The fruitless search for the landscape gradually begins to test Maan's patience. Will she ever find the mountains emblazoned in the pear blossoms?
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[DIRECTOR]
Carol Lai was born in 1966 in Hong Kong. She started becoming involved in film production as an assistant director from 1989. Her maiden work "Father's Toy" won the Best Short Film Award at the first Cinemanila International Film Festival in the Philippines. This film went on to be nominated at numerous film festivals including the 1999 Pia Film Festival and the fourth Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea.
Her first feature film "Glass Tears" was invited to the 33rd Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. In Japan, the film won the Judges Special Prize in the Young Fantasic Competition at the 2002 Yubari International Fantastic Adventure Film Festival.
STAFF :
Director : Carol Lai Miu-suet
Producer : Stanley Kwan, Arthur Wong, UEDA Makoto (NHK Enterprises 21, Inc.)
CAST :
Karena Lam
Liu Ye
Ekin Cheng
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