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Taiwan director Leon Dai's harsh real-life drama No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti won best feature at the Golden Horse Film Awards, which are regarded as the Oscars for Chinese-language film.The black-and-white movie, based on a true story, follows a lone father from the working-class southern Taiwan port city Kaohsiung in a fight against the government to get his daughter into school. Unsuccessful and clinging to the faithful daughter, he threatens to jump off a bridge.No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti beat four other finalists in a marathon awards ceremony staged in Taipei but dominated by entries from economic powerhouse China.The Golden Horse best director award went to the same film's Leon Dai, who cried while accepting the prize.We were nominated in eight categories and getting the viewer's award, for a team like us, starting from scratch on the first day until the last day, I think it is an incredible recognition, Dai said in his brief remarks. Li Bingbing of Chinese spy thriller The Message won best actress.The best actor prize went for the first time to two people, Huang Bo from China's war-themed black comedy Cow and Nick Cheung in Hong Kong action movie The Beast Stalker.The Golden Horse Film Awards, in their 46th season, judges Chinese-language films from Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and China, including Hong Kong and Macau. Once open only to Taiwan films, it began allowing films from outside in the 1990s.
