Aug

13

2008





A movie to watch out for at this year’s Venice Film Festival is the new Yu Lik-wai film titled “Plastic City” (Dangkou). The film features two stars from the Asia region, Joe Odagiri from Japan and Anthony Wong from Hong Kong, appearing together for the first time.

What’s known about the film so far is that Joe Odagiri traveled to Brazil in March, 2008. He stayed there for two weeks to film his parts in the movie. In “Plastic City” Joe Odagiri plays Kirin, a Japanese-Brazilian orphan that becomes adopted by Yuda (Anthony Wong), a leader of an Asian mob. Kirin then becomes involved in the mob run Brazilian black market as an adult. One day his adopted father is arrested and Kirin is left to hold the empire together.

Co-star Anthony Wong is a mainstay of Hong Kong cinema and has branched out onto the international stage of late. Wong gave a fun performance in the otherwise dreadful film “The Mummy 3″ and “Plastic City” will mark his next international film.

Yu Lik-wa (sometimes referred to as Nelson Yu) is an accomplished director and cinematographer as well. Two of his earlier films, Love Will Tear Us Apart and All Tomorrow’s Parties, were screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Furthermore, Yu Lik-wa has worked as the cinematographer for numerous Jia Zhangke films and as well as other well reguarded films like Yang Zhang films “Getting Home.”

Plastic City premiers at the 65th annual Venice Film Festival (August 27th - September 6th, 2008) and is slated to open in Brazil during the spring of 2009. No word yet on the movie’s release dates in other regions.





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  1. 2 sunmia Says: August 17, 2008

    I agree Seguoi! pardon me for saying this, but i will watch cause Odagiri is a hottie!
    Bokeh wa seguoi, desu!

  2. 1 PrincelyLuna Says: August 14, 2008

    WOW … looking at the pictures, the movie looks kinda strangely dark??! the same feeling i get when watching the trailer for I Came With the Rain. definitely waiting for this movie too. so many Jo Odagiri movies this year … heh, i’m not complaining though. Anthony Wong is good too … really good.