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Asian-Amer ican l mmaker s Eri
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focust heirlensupon t he hot-t
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A FROZEN FLOWER ( 2009),South Korea IP MAN 2 (
2010),Hong Kon CENTERPIECEFILM
Love, l oyal
t y, and betrayal merge as a king, his chief SEVEN 2 ONE( 2009),Hong Kong The knockout fol
low-
up t ol ast year '
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guar dian and t he queen become enmeshed i n a love Circling around an incident in a convenience st
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tri
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store clerksand theirlecherousmanager .It'sRASHOMON away...
again!
A MILLION (2009),South Korea fort hecel lphoneage.
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ACCI DENT (2009),Hong Kong pickpocketsandthealluri
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Thisani mated tal
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AGRARIAN UTOPI A(2009),Thai l
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on a st r
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and disregard. preparesf orhisgreatestchallenge. A uni
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AU REVOI R TAIPEI(2010) ,Taiwan OPENINGNIGHT and tactless l m di rector att
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A r omant ic comedy wi th its share of gangst er
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featur e by wr iter-
director Chen beaut if
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he many challenges MAO' SLAST DANCER ( 2009),Australia
city'slandscapest ot he big screen inthisbreezy,lovable theyfacegetting thr
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those around him. He st rikesup a f
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