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Johnnie To Talks New Realities For Hong Kong Filmmakers In Conversation With Yu Irie
While talking about his free-wheeling style of filmmaking, the iconic director acknowledged that Hong Kong filmmakers now have less freedom.
Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To talked through his long career, including his free-wheeling style of shooting, in conversation with Japanese director Yu Irie at Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). Yu Irie, this year’s director in focus in TIFF’s Nippon Cinema Now section, said he’d grown up watching Hong Kong films and counted To’s Exiled and The Mission among his favourite movies. The legendary filmmaker, who is also serving on TIFF’s competition jury along with Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai, also talked about how he’d often shoot two or even three movies simultaneously.
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