China's 'Beijing Blues' tops Taiwan film festival

China's 'Beijing Blues' tops Taiwan film festival
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Summary China's "Beijing Blues" has won the best film award at Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Festival.

 

The event considered the Chinese-language Oscars. Hong Kong s Johnnie To is taking home the best director s award


"Beijing Blues" portrays the lives of the ordinary urban dwellers through the work of a squad of plainclothes crime-hunters.


At Saturday s ceremony, To won the award for directing "Life Without Principle," a movie about ordinary citizens  struggles in hard economic times.


The film has also won veteran Hong Kong actor Lau Ching Wan the best actor s award. Lau portrays a triad thug seeking to recover money lost in a loan shark scheme.


Taiwan s Gwei Lun-mei won the best actress award for portraying a woman involved in a romantic triangle in "GF-BF" or "Girlfriend-Boyfriend."
 

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