The film “Dwelling By The West Lake” directed by Gu Xiaogang and starring Wu Lei, Jiang Qinqin, Chen Jianbin, and Wang Jiajia has been officially announced as a finalist for the main competition unit of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival. The “Chinese Landscape Edition” themed poster also has been released. Designed by Huang Hai and inscribed by calligrapher Xu Jing, the picture is taken from a scene in the movie.

“Dwelling By The West Lake” is the second volume of Gu Xiaogang’s “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” series. It inherits the oriental film aesthetics of his first work “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” and moves from the banks of the Fuchun River in “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains” to the West Lake Tea Mountain in the “Dwelling By The West Lake”. The film revolves around family emotions, overlays crime and other plot elements, and uses current social realism themes to try to translate the Chinese classical legend “Mulian Saves Her Mother”.

The film will have its world premiere at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival on October 28. “Akira Kurosawa Award” winner, director Gu Xiaogang, will have a special post-screening conversation with 92-year-old director Yoji Yamada on October 30.

Aside from “Dwelling By The West Lake”, other movie starring Wu Lei, “All Ears” will also be screen on The World Focus Section of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival.

Original article: Sohu.