Chinese director Li lands a hit

HONG KONG: Many directors who have faced as much censorship as Li Yu would have hung up their hats.
Her social drama "Lost in Beijing" had to drop sexually explicit scenes and key plot lines.

Updated 28 April 2011 00:57

ASSOCIATED PRESS

April 28, 2011 00:57

Then its release was delayed several times. About a month after hitting theaters in November 2007, censors pulled the movie altogether and banned producer Fang Li for two years. Three years later, the 36-year-old filmmaker has rehabilitated herself with Chinese film censors and produced an art-house hit she says stays true to her artistic vision.

The 17 million Chinese yuan ($2.6 million) drama «Buddha Mountain» has brought in 80 million yuan ($12.3 million) in mainland China since its release on March 4 - an impressive figure for a low-budget, non-mainstream production.