Nelson Yu Lik-wai
Nacimiento : 1966-08-12, British Hong Kong
Historia
Yu Lik-wai (simplified Chinese: 余力为; traditional Chinese: 余力爲; pinyin: Yú Lìwéi; Jyutping: Yu4 Lik6 Wai4; born 12 August 1966), sometimes credited as Nelson Yu, is a Hong Kong cinematographer, film director, and occasional film producer. Born in Hong Kong, Yu Lik-wai was educated at Belgium's INSAS (Institut National Superieur des Arts de Spectacle) where he graduated with a degree in cinematography in 1994. Yu has become a mainstay in both the cinemas of China (where he is perhaps best known for his collaborations with director Jia Zhangke) and Hong Kong.
Yu has served as director of photography for nearly all of Chinese director Jia Zhangke's films, and along with Jia, the two men founded their own independent film production company, Xstream Pictures.
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The movie tells the story of a restaurant owner (played by Duan Yihong) who's chased after the murderer of his son for seven years. On the way, he met a young man (played by Shi Pengyuan) with a complicated background. Amidst suspicion and temptation, the relationship between the two began moving in an unexpected direction.
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Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.
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A film featuring singer Ganavya, calligrapher Wang Dongling, and dancer Michael Schumacher who during COVID lockdown, created an hour-long meditation on the visionary, radiant Vimalakirti Sutra, a Buddhist text from the first century CE. A businessman, having chosen a path of illness towards spiritual awakening, teaches the visitors at his deathbed with depth and penetration: how to face life with no illusions. The artists, across three continents and three artforms, interpret the text individually and collaboratively, sharing a story of acute pain, deep healing, and radical transformation.
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In 2003, Han Dong, a teenager who dropped out of high school, arrives at Beijing with a dream of becoming a journalist.
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What gifts would your parents prepare when your Chinese New Year visit comes to an end? A film about the taste of home shot on iPhone XS.
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Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). In Jia’s segment, a Chinese couple in the ancient town of Pingyao attempts to breathe new life into their old love as they ponder having a second child. Pingyao, home to the film festival Jia has co-founded, is a highly picturesque UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Jia humorously plays with a very recent dilemma – the second child policy dates from only 2013 – in a setting itself forcibly revived from history.
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Un cautivador drama acerca de varios mineros del carbón de la provinica de Shanxi en busca de trabajo.
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China, a finales de 1999. Tao, una joven de Fenyang, es cortejada por sus dos amigos de la infancia, Zang y Lianzi. Zang, propietario de una estación de gasolina, está destinado a un futuro prometedor, mientras que Liang trabaja en una mina de carbón. Su corazón está dividido entre los dos hombres, y debe tomar una decisión que sellará su destino y el de su futuro hijo.
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Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous levels of air pollution. 'Smog Journeys' traces two families from two different backgrounds; one a mining family in Hebei province, and the other a trendy middle class family in Beijing. Both face a similar fate. Air pollution is one of China's most pressing environmental and health issues. Greenpeace calls for a shift from coal to clean renewable energy, as well as short term measures that better safeguard people's health.
Self
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for his movies, such as Platform, Still Life and A Touch of Sin. The film is the memory of a filmmaker and of a country in convulsion, China, which reveals itself little by little.
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Dahai, minero exasperado por la corrupción de los dirigentes de su pueblo, decide pasar a la acción. San'er, un trabajador emigrante, descubre las infinitas posibilidades que le ofrece su arma. Xiaoyu, recepcionista en una sauna, no soporta más el acoso de un cliente rico. Xiaohui pasa de un trabajo a otro en condiciones cada vez más degradantes. Cuatro personajes, cuatro provincias, una reflexión sobre China contemporánea: una sociedad con un desarrollo económico colosal poco a poco erosionado por la violencia. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Young Chinese parents Chen Xuesong and Cai Weihang find their marriage eroding as they deal with financial troubles, jealousy and constant bickering. When Weihang finds a photo of Xuesong and her ex-boyfriend, things spiral out of control.
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Chun Tao-Chung ha trabajado de criada durante más de 60 años para la familia Leung. Ahora, el único miembro de la familia que sigue viviendo en Hong Kong es Roger, y Tao sigue trabajando para él. Sin embargo, un día Tao sufre un derrame cerebral. Una vez está en el hospital, le anuncia a Roger su intención de abandonar su trabajo e instalarse en una residencia para ancianos. Roger intenta disuadirla, pero ella tiene la idea muy clara, así que él empieza a buscar una residencia buena donde pueda vivir, y al final encuentra una habitación para Tao en un centro dirigido por un amigo suyo. Poco a poco, al cuidar de Tao, Roger se da cuenta de lo importante que Tao es para él.
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Una joven profesora de Pekín aterriza en París. Exiliada en una ciudad que desconoce, su tiempo lo reparte entre su pequeño apartamento y las aulas de la universidad, espacios que acogen los reencuentros con antiguos amantes y las rupturas con sus últimos conocidos. Al poco tiempo, conoce a Matthieu, un obrero que se enamora apasionadamente de ella. Poseído por un deseo insaciable, trata a Hua como un perro, forjando una relación basada en la violencia física y los abusos verbales. Cuando decide abandonar a su amante, Hua descubre la fuerza de su adicción y el papel vital que Matthieu comenzaba a desempeñar en su vida.
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A Shanghai, una metrópoli en rápida evolución, una ciudad de intensa actividad portuaria, llegan todo tipo de personas: revolucionarios, capitalistas, políticos, soldados, artistas y mafiosos. También ha visto revoluciones, asesinatos e historias de amor. Después de la victoria de los comunistas chinos en 1949, miles de habitantes de la ciudad marcharon a Hong Kong y Taiwán. Irse significaba el abandono de sus hogares, la separación de sus familiares; pero quedarse significaba sufrir las consecuencias de la Revolución Cultural y otros desastres.
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Una mujer que desde niña vivía en un viejo edificio frente a Victoria Bay, el puerto de Hong Kong, del cual tenía una vista no solo al mar sino a toda la ciudad. Según fueron pasando los años, las constructoras iban demoliendo los edificios, haciendo sitio para un gran complejo residencial.
Brother Wah
Una mujer que desde niña vivía en un viejo edificio frente a Victoria Bay, el puerto de Hong Kong, del cual tenía una vista no solo al mar sino a toda la ciudad. Según fueron pasando los años, las constructoras iban demoliendo los edificios, haciendo sitio para un gran complejo residencial.
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Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle, stand at the head of a massive pirated goods operation that brings in both money and influence. But their empire is crumbling, as corrupt politicians and rival gangs seek to end their power in the city. Yuda is soon got arrested and his dedicated son tries his best to save not just the family business, but his father's reputation.
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24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned factory in Chengdu, southwest China and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.
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Zhao es un humilde trabajador que emprende un viaje a través de China para devolver el cadáver de un amigo a su familia, y así cumplir una promesa que le había hecho.
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Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa), a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai.
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Jia Zhangke travels with painter Liu Xiaodong from China to Thailand as they as they meet everyday workers in the throes of social turmoil. Liu Xiaodong is well-known for his monumental canvases, particularly those inspired by China's Three Gorges Dam project. Jia Zhangke visits Liu on the banks of Fengjie, a city about to be swallowed up by the Yangtze River. The area is in the process of being "de-constructed" by armies of shirtless male workers who form the subject of Liu's paintings. Liu and Jia next travel to Bangkok, where Liu paints Thai sex workers languishing in brothels. The two sets of paintings are united in their subjects' shared sense of malaise in the face of the dehumanizing labor afforded them.
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Tras la construcción de la presa de las Tres Gargantas (China) la aldea de Fengjie fue inundada y sus habitantes realojados en un nuevo emplazamiento. El minero Han Sanming regresa a Fengjie, después de 16 años de ausencia, a buscar a su mujer. También la enfermera Shen Hong busca en la aldea a su marido.
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Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Yu Lik-wai
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Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Yu Lik-wai
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Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Yu Lik-wai
Associate Producer
La película gira al rededor de Tao, una cantante del Beijing World Park, y su novio Tai-Sheng, quien se ocupa de la seguridad del parque temático. Pero los enamorados empiezan a distanciarse cuando otros personajes también ejercen su poder de seducción..
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La película gira al rededor de Tao, una cantante del Beijing World Park, y su novio Tai-Sheng, quien se ocupa de la seguridad del parque temático. Pero los enamorados empiezan a distanciarse cuando otros personajes también ejercen su poder de seducción..
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Plastic city suffers from the big chill. The extreme weather conditions prohibits and human existence on the ground surface. An hostel is under this deserted landscape. A doorkeeper of the hostel Kirin is an orphan and nobody knows exactly where he is from. People named him Kirin simply because he earns his life by collecting emptied Kirin beer cans. One day he meets a woman nomad Lanian.
Writer
Plastic city suffers from the big chill. The extreme weather conditions prohibits and human existence on the ground surface. An hostel is under this deserted landscape. A doorkeeper of the hostel Kirin is an orphan and nobody knows exactly where he is from. People named him Kirin simply because he earns his life by collecting emptied Kirin beer cans. One day he meets a woman nomad Lanian.
Director
Plastic city suffers from the big chill. The extreme weather conditions prohibits and human existence on the ground surface. An hostel is under this deserted landscape. A doorkeeper of the hostel Kirin is an orphan and nobody knows exactly where he is from. People named him Kirin simply because he earns his life by collecting emptied Kirin beer cans. One day he meets a woman nomad Lanian.
Writer
En una futura Asia del este dirigida por una autoritaria secta, los hermanos Xie, Xiaozhuai (Diao Yi Nan) y Xiaomian (Zhao Wei Wei), son encerrados en el Campo Prosperidad para su reeducación. Pero cuando la secta se derrumba, los internos se preguntan qué hacer con la libertad recién concedida.
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En una futura Asia del este dirigida por una autoritaria secta, los hermanos Xie, Xiaozhuai (Diao Yi Nan) y Xiaomian (Zhao Wei Wei), son encerrados en el Campo Prosperidad para su reeducación. Pero cuando la secta se derrumba, los internos se preguntan qué hacer con la libertad recién concedida.
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Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet.
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Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet.
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China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
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China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
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A fragmentary landscape for a little train station in a suburban area and a bus stop in a mining town. A lonely soldier in his heavy coat, a tired old man, a bubbly young lady, a punk, a woman waiting in the street... From all those different people in these unfamiliar places, we can feel the exhaustion of every life.
Writer
Hong Kong, finales de los 90. El film sigue a varios personajes marginales, llegados a la gran ciudad procedentes de la China continental. El dueño de un negocio de vídeos porno, su esposa ascensorista con una prótesis en el pie, la joven venida del campo que ha terminado ejerciendo de prostituta, el joven timorato incapaz de tratar con chicas... Con ritmo lento, Nelson Yu Lik-wai nos pinta la penosa y triste vida de estos personajes sin rumbo ni ilusiones dignas de este nombre, y que nunca se plantean la bondad o maldad de lo que hacen
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Hong Kong, finales de los 90. El film sigue a varios personajes marginales, llegados a la gran ciudad procedentes de la China continental. El dueño de un negocio de vídeos porno, su esposa ascensorista con una prótesis en el pie, la joven venida del campo que ha terminado ejerciendo de prostituta, el joven timorato incapaz de tratar con chicas... Con ritmo lento, Nelson Yu Lik-wai nos pinta la penosa y triste vida de estos personajes sin rumbo ni ilusiones dignas de este nombre, y que nunca se plantean la bondad o maldad de lo que hacen
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Ordinary Heroes is a narration about the life stories of an advocate, a prostitute, a social worker, and a priest during the social movements from 1970s to 1980s in Hong Kong. The film is based upon true stories.
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A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
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Three provincial girls departed for Beijing. Yu Quin works as a hostess in a night-club, leaving her two-year-old daughter in someone else's care. Hu Jin is a bit part player and runway model. Zun Ji worked as a dancer in a discotheque, but returned to her hometown after she became a drug addict.
Scenario Writer
Three provincial girls departed for Beijing. Yu Quin works as a hostess in a night-club, leaving her two-year-old daughter in someone else's care. Hu Jin is a bit part player and runway model. Zun Ji worked as a dancer in a discotheque, but returned to her hometown after she became a drug addict.
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Three provincial girls departed for Beijing. Yu Quin works as a hostess in a night-club, leaving her two-year-old daughter in someone else's care. Hu Jin is a bit part player and runway model. Zun Ji worked as a dancer in a discotheque, but returned to her hometown after she became a drug addict.
