The world premiere of
Customs Frontline
will officially close
the Far East Film Festival 26!
The director on the stage of the Teatro Nuovo
Herman Yau and superstar Nicholas Tse.
If the Closing Night of FEFF 26 kicks off under the double sign of Zhang Yimou and Chiu Fu-sheng, with the awarding of the two Golden Mulberries for Lifetime Achievement and the eagerly awaited screening of the restoration of Vivere!, what will be the last, top secret, title for Thursday 2 May? After a long wait, the time has come to reveal the cards: the festival will officially close with the world premiere of Customs Frontline, Herman Yau’s new great action film! Accompanying the film in Udine will be Herman Yau himself, his historic screenwriter Erica Li and, for the first time on the stage of the Teatro Nuovo, the Hong Kong superstar Nicholas Tse, famous in his homeland not only as a film and television actor but also as a singer pop rock.
The one between Herman Yau and the FEFF is a beautiful and solid story of friendship that has never stopped growing since 1999. An affectionate personal and artistic relationship that began with The Untold Story III (remember?) and continued year after year, edition after edition , leading Herman to present 15 works to the Fareast community: from From the Queen to the Chief Executive to On the Edge, from Ip Man – The Final Fight to the legendary Shock Wave, from Sara to The White Storm 2: Drug Lords. 15 works! Not just a generous and applauded custom, and that would already be enough, but a real “cinematic biography” browsed by the public over time.
And here we are, precisely, at Customs Frontline. Here we are with a blockbuster with a capital C which sees Herman, after a couple of films shot in mainland China, ready to unleash chaos in his Hong Kong again! A few strictly spoiler-free plot lines? A container ship appears in Hong Kong waters and customs officers board for an inspection. The team, which includes the cocky Chow Ching-lai (Nicholas Tse), soon discovers the corpses of the crew members and a huge cache of weapons, including a valuable compass suitable for use in a submarine. The agents don’t know it yet, but an international case is about to break out…
Honoring the sacred combination of action made in Hong Kong, entertainment and adrenaline, Herman Yau and Nicholas Tse bring back to center stage the emotions most loved by FEFF spectators: a very strong bond which, like that between Herman and the festival, has never never broken since 1999!