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Chinese filmmaker John Woo's new action movie made its premiere Friday at the 74th Venice Film Festival.
"Manhunt" (Zhuibu) screened out of competition, starring Chinese Zhang Hanyu, Qi Wei, and Angeles Woo, Japanese Masaharu Fukuyama, and South Korean
Ha Ji-won.
The film is an adaptation of a novel by Japanese writer Juko Nishimura, which had inspired a first crime film titled "Kimi yo Fundo no Kawa o Watare" (You Must Cross the River of Wrath) in 1976.
File of director John Woo with two main actors.
Set in Japan, the story tells of a Chinese lawyer (Zhang Hanyu) working as an attorney for a pharmaceutical firm and getting unwittingly involved in a murder case. The man realizes he is being framed for the crime.
Believing him the perpetrator, Japanese police launch a wide manhunt for him. This would trigger the lawyer's own desperate effort to unveil the conspiracy, and reach for the truth.
Meanwhile, a veteran detective (Masaharu Fukuyama) does not believe the case to be so clear, and would gradually develop a bond with the fugitive man.
A still from "Manhunt".
John Woo's "Manhunt" was meant as a tribute to late Ken Takakura, the iconic Japanese actor who starred in the original film directed by Japanese Junya Sato and released in China in 1978.
After Venice, the action movie will screen next week at the Toronto Film Festival.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
