Event 72

Chinese Film Series

Venue: La Cárcel–Filmoteca de Segovia

2.30pm, Screening: Yi Dai Zong Shi (The Grand Master)

(Karwai Wong, 2013. Duration: 125 minutes)
Ye Wen was born in Foshan. He loves the Wing Chun style so much that he often visits the Gold Pavilion, a stylish brothel where Kung Fu masters meet. Grand Master Gong Yutian visits Foshan with his daughter, who has inherited the deadly ‘64 hands’ technique. Gong’s world is turned upside-down due to a betrayal related to the Japanese occupation of Northeast China, and Gong’s daughter Gong Er takes a decision which will change her life. Despite the difficulties he encounters, Ye Wen does not surrender and sets up a Wing Chun school in Hong Kong.
Chinese original version with Spanish subtitles

5pm, Screening: Xiao Shi De Zi Dan (The Bullet Vanishes)
(Lo Chi-Leung, 2012. Duration: 108 minutos)
Song and Guo are detectives who are sent to try and find out who committed murder in a bullet factory in Shanghai in the thirties. However, the deaths seem to be unreal as the bullets mysteriously disappear.

Chinese original version with Spanish subtitles
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