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Screening: Bodyguards and Assassins (CAFF 2011)
The 2011 Chinese American Film Festival presents a screening of Bodyguards and Assassins.
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In 1905 Central Hong Kong, revolutionists were brutally murdered. When the Qing government heard Sun Yat-sen was about to visit Hong Kong, they sent General Yan Xiaoguo to assassin him. Yan paid out gambler Shen Chongyang as an informant. Chen Shaobai, president and editor-in-chief of “China Daily”, and his whole family was annihilated because of protecting Sun Yat-sen. The only survivor was his daughter Fang Hong. Struck by his son and friend’s revolutionary acts, local businessman Li Yutang took over the mission to keep Sun Yat-sen safe with Fang Hong, local vendor Wang Fuming and a beggar named Liu Yubai as bodyguards. A man hunt over the city began…
For a complete listing of Chinese films to be featured at the 2011 Chinese American Film Festival, please click here.
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