Taiwanese crime thriller triumphs at Golden Horse
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TAIWAN director Yang Ya-che’s thriller “The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful” dominated the Golden Horse awards, dubbed the Chinese “Oscars,” on Saturday.
The movie won the best film award, the best actress award, and the best supporting actress award.
The chilling drama about a wealthy family entangled in deadly political and business intrigues was also voted best film by audiences.
Hong Kong actor Kara Hui Ying-hung bagged the best actress gong for her role as the manipulative and calculating matriarch of the family.
“I want to thank my daughters (in the film) Vicky Chen and Wu Ke-xi. I couldn’t have played the role so well without you,” Hui said after receiving the statuette from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee and Hollywood star Jessica Chastain.
Chen, 14, wept tears of joy after she saw off two former Golden Horse winners to collect the best supporting actress award for her performance in “The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful.”
“I am very fortunate,” Chen said. “I want to thank the director and the production crew who encouraged, supported and cared about me.”
The teenager also made history as the youngest best actress nominee for her role in Chinese filmmaker Vivian Qu’s drama “Angels Wear White,” which also competed in this year’s Venice film festival.
In it, Chen plays a runaway who witnesses the sexual assault of two young girls and is torn between her conscience and saving her job by keeping quiet.
The film earned Qu the best directing prize at the Golden Horse awards on Saturday.
“This is not just a story in China. This kind of story is happening around the world,” Qu said.
She thanked Chen and other young actresses in the film for “giving a voice to the children who are unable to speak up for themselves.”
Chinese actor Tu Men beat better-known rivals — including Taiwanese-Japanese heart-throb Takeshi Kaneshiro and former Golden Horse winner Huang Bo — to claim the best actor title.
Tu played a ruthless gambling addict who abandons his sick wife in the dark family drama “Old Beast.”
Taiwanese director Huang Hsin-yao took the best new director award for his popular drama “The Great Buddha+,” which also won best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best original film score and best original film song.
The film, which tells the story of a security guard at a factory that makes Buddha statues, has struck a chord with Taiwanese audiences because it focuses on the struggles of ordinary people against the backdrop of a widening inequality of wealth.
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