November 03, 2021 20:48 PM
Movie “One and Four” poster
The finalist film “One and Four” in the main competition unit of the 34th Tokyo International Film Festival held its world premiere. The 24-year-old young director Kumi Cheng has become the youngest Chinese director to be shortlisted in the main competition since the Tokyo International Film Festival was founded.
Hundreds of viewers broke into the mysterious western world together on the long-lost big screen. They were overwhelmed by the ingenious narrative and psychedelic images of the talented young director Jumi Cheng. After the film ended, they responded with long applause. To express a strong love for the film.
The movie “One and Four” is adapted from the short story of the same name by the Tibetan writer Jiang Yang Cairang. Production Co., Ltd., Beijing Siaiweiye Culture Media Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Qianyi Culture Communication Co., Ltd., Haikou Redaojing Film and Television Communication Co., Ltd. and Xinjiang Chuangli Film and Television Culture Media Co., Ltd. jointly produced, with Wanma Caidan and Wang Lei as the lead producer people.
Last night, the SC1 hall of CHANTER CINE Cinemas in Ginza, Tokyo was full of seats. Many international film professionals who attended this Tokyo International Film Festival came to watch the film and were shocked by the technique. It was written by a 24-year-old young director. His debut work, pay eager attention.
The story of the film is set at a certain day in the late 1990s. A blizzard was about to hit a primitive forest farm on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and three uninvited guests broke into the forest ranger’s wooden house. Subsequently, the forest ranger was involved in a police chasing poacher. Lin Haixueyuan, murderous all at once, the truth becomes confusing…
The film opens in a tense audio-visual atmosphere. The protagonist Sangjie (played by Jinba) and four uninvited guests played by Wang Zheng, etc., lead the audience into a crisis-filled virgin forest area on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The people in the film in the extremely harsh natural environment become both real and illusory in consciousness. Who is one? Who are the four? The truth and lies were carried by the snowstorm. The audience was entangled in the confined space of the wooden house in the forest by the high-density narrative line of director Jume Cheng, as if they themselves were one of the opposing forces.
After the screening, the audience stood up one after another and gave a spontaneous applause for a long time. Yan Lihua, an overseas Chinese living in Japan, said after watching “One and Four”: “The film uses the theme of a stranger who suddenly broke into the forest ranger’s hut in the Qinghai-Tibet Nature Reserve in the 1990s, and launched a contest between the police and the poachers. The film is highly expressive. The actors’ acting skills are online and the expression is delicate. The sound and music are very oppressive.”
An ordinary movie fan from Tokyo said: “The film “One and Four” uses its unique technique to unfold and describe a confusing story and the human nature of looking at flowers in the fog. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between lies and truth in this world. More It’s about letting people think and judge for themselves.”
Due to the epidemic, the director Jumesari and all the main creators of the film were unable to attend the world premiere of the film at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Although regrettable, when the director received a message from friends in the Japanese film industry after watching the film After congratulating the message, he said: “This movie is not easy to make. I am very happy that the Japanese audience understood it, and it still understands it.”
The movie “One and Four” was launched on December 19, 2019. It encountered the new crown epidemic halfway and was forced to shut down. In the winter of 2020, the second filming was started. After a year’s interruption in creation, director Jume Chenglie was not discouraged. On the one hand, he actively reviewed the material and further polished the script. At the same time, with the assistance of producer Wanma Caidan and producer Wang Lei, he participated in venture capital investment in various film festivals and sought Funding and production resources, the industry also paid high attention to the follow-up, and was evaluated by professionals: “Constantly switching between closed spaces and open jungles, a cat and mouse game was launched. I can see that the author and team use genre routines to discover new styles. The ambition of the Tibetan-themed film, the meticulous construction of the plot, and the unified audio-visual style make people look forward to the film.”
In the filming process of this film, in addition to dealing with the direct impact of the epidemic, it also had to face the huge financial pressure brought by the industry recession for production. At the same time, the main creative team had to face the difficulties of shooting under the extreme cold. With the joint efforts of the core creative team such as director Jume Chenglie and director of photography Lu Songye, the film was finally completed with high quality. The film was shot twice, which lasted 53 days, which was not easy. It is reported that the producer Wang Lei has been quarantined three times in order to deal with the equipment and vehicles stranded on the studio after being shut down for 78 days due to the outbreak.
The growth of a young director is inseparable from the leadership and guidance of the predecessors and teachers in the industry. In this regard, as the director system of the film and the director of Jume Chenglie, Professor Hou Keming said during his studies at the Beijing Film Academy: “Jume has him. A very firm thing. In fact, this movie is about the trial of humanity in a confined space in a harsh natural environment.” He commented that “One and Four” did not expect to be so complete and completely beyond mine. Imagine.
“One and Four” is a film that combines multiple genres such as western, police, and suspense. The film has a quasi-industrial production level and mature film techniques. It is worth mentioning that as an attempter of Tibetan genre films, “One and Four” directed by Kumi Chenglie has a “Rashomon” narrative structure. There is also a mysterious atmosphere of Tibetan culture in the tone.
The film’s main creative team is powerful, with the director of Hou Keming, the producer of Wanma Caidan, the screenwriter and director Jume Chenglie, the lead starring Jinba and Wang Zheng, and the starring role of Gengdan and Dajie Ding Zenghe Caiduo. The director of photography for this film is the well-known photographer Lu Songye. This is the first time that Lu Songye has chosen a genre film. The recording director is Wang Shuo, who has worked with the Tibetan team for many years, and the sound director is Li Danfeng. He has won many awards before. International professional award, the art director Doo Zedong Zhu has worked in many Tibetan film art. He brought a stunning texture to the visual presentation of the film. The editing director of this film, Jin Di, has a deep understanding of Tibetan films. Fate, this time I also help. Ding Ke, a well-known independent musician in France, scored the film.
As the director of the film, Jiumei Chenglie, born in Qinghai in 1997, of Tibetan nationality, graduated from Beijing Film Academy with a bachelor’s degree in directing in 2020. During the school, he created a number of short films, and also interned in the crews of a number of well-known directors, and accumulated a lot of filming experience. His documentary short film “They Make Movies on the Plateau” shot in 2017 is in the permanent collection of the Independent Chinese Video Archive (UK). “One and Four”, which took three years from brewing to production, is its debut feature film.
“One and Four” will go to the Tokyo International Film Festival this time. In addition to its world premiere, it will also compete for the “Golden Unicorn” Best Picture Award with all the films shortlisted in the main competition unit. The film project has won the 2020 Shanghai International Film Festival Venture Capital Conference in production projects “Muffy Film New Voice Special Concern Project Award” and “Tiangong Extraordinary Special Concern Project Award” in the production of Shanghai International Film Festival 2020 Beijing Market “Most Investment Value Award”, “Most Market Concern Award” and “Music Work Authorization Service Award” sponsored by Universal Music.
The Tokyo International Film Festival will be held in Ginza, Tokyo from October 30th to November 8th. The chairman of the jury is the famous French actor Isabelle Huppert.
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