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The Mermaid
美人鱼
2016 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Stephen Chow
When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.
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I did not see this one: Ulysses and the Stars (1976)
Loved it when I was a child. But I will give you a few excellent Russian movies:
Duelist https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5282006/
Kollector https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5031998/
Mermaid (more a girls movie but underrated in my opinion) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7162390/
China does not make films that American consumers would want to consume. The best Chinese movies last year were mermaid and monster hunt...I saw both (bored on an air china flight), they were both absolutely awful.
There was a time in the late 90s when the golden Beijing Institute of Film class (the first one after the cultural revolution) was producing wonderful art house films that DID get viewership abroad. Sadly, this ended with increasing control of the gov over the film industry, and even the Taiwanese and Honk Kong films that we once enjoyed have disappeared to an industry that is now largely catering to the mainland market.
The future of the chinese film industry is more Warcraft and less "eat, drink man woman" (a Taiwan film) or "farewell my concubine" (I think the latter one was banned in the mainland), there is nothing there for us.
> Jiang told him that he planned to cast foreign actors in the lead roles and wanted to tailor the movie for international distribution.
I wonder if it irks him that the Chinese film which has made the most money ever in the history of Chinese cinema (US$553.8 million so far, even beating Hollywood films in China) is a film called "The Mermaid."
And it features a completely Chinese main cast and the story is geared towards the Chinese audience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mermaid_%282016_film%29