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Zhang Yimou's 'One Second' Set for China Release After Lengthy Censorship Struggle

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Renowned Chinese director Zhang Yimou's love letter to cinema, the period drama One Second, is finally headed to cinemas. Beijing regulators have approved the film for release on Nov.

27, following a year-long censorship struggle. One Second originally was set to premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2019, but it was removed from the lineup at the last minute with producers citing "technical issues," a common euphemism for censorship objections from the Chinese government.

The episode sent shockwaves through the international film community, signaling that recent changes to China's censorship apparatus would mean a much more repressive stance towards filmmaking.

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