Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Chinese film sales company Parallax Films is poised to make a splash this week in Tokyo. The outfit has two titles in the Tokyo International Film Festival official selection and a host of festival-travelled Chinese films in the TIFFCOM market.
Appearing in main competition is “A Long Shot,” a crime drama by first time feature director Gao Peng. The film is set in the 1980s when China’s modernization was only beginning to get under way.
Nevertheless, in the rust belt of the North East, factories were already in decline and thefts were on the rise. The story follows a former sharpshooter who retires to become a factory security officer and who tries to steer away from crime the son of a woman he cares about.
The picture stars Zu Feng, Qin Hailu and Zhou Zhengjie. Florian Zinke, a German cinematographer who has other Asian film credits including “Nina Wu” and Eva Jin’s “Legend of Sun and Moon” and is slated to lens the upcoming “The Sand Murmurs,” is set as director of photography.
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