| Dec 19 2007 |
Sylvia Chang is right up there with Josephine Siao Fong-fong in terms of Great Motion Picture Superheroines, and it's about time she had a new movie come out. RUN PAPA RUN stars Louis Koo as a triad boss who has a kid with a lawyer and decides that he's going to settle down and make it work. While some filmmakers would play this solely for laughs, Chang is going for a bigger and better lump-in-your-throat experience. She follows Koo's life, from young thug to old geezer, tracking his changing relationships with his mother, his wife and his daughter over the years.
Produced by Jackie Chan, and directed by Chang, you can see a full-length, English-subtitled trailer here, or read more about the movie here. This is definitely worth getting excited about. And if you don't know who Sylvia Chang is then you should be ashamed of yourself. She's truly one of the world's great female filmmakers and you can read more about her over here (scroll down for her bio and photos).
(Thanks to the sharp-eyed reader who sent this in)
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Anyway, now I can finally see the visuals about the project she was hinting at in interviews during her visit at the World Film Festival of Bangkok (not to be confused with the Bangkok International Film Festival).
Looks cool.

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