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Actress Song Yiren, who made her leading lady debut in fantasy epic Ever Night, is adorable in these two sets of photos of her travelling in hanfu. (more…)
Actress Song Yiren, who made her leading lady debut in fantasy epic Ever Night, is adorable in these two sets of photos of her travelling in hanfu. (more…)
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The cast of New Meteor Garden may still be unknowns, but they’re already doing more photoshoots than most actors. They sure seem uniformly cute already. The drama is set for a summer Hunan TV release.
Yes! Chen Daoming is back in drama land, and as a main character no less. In Thankful for the Remaining Years / Qing Yu Nian Season 1, he’ll be playing the tyrannical Emperor of the fictional country of Qing (he may be known as Liu Yu in the drama), a martial arts grand master and biological father of our protagonist Fan Xian (Zhang Ruoyun). Extended synopsis can be found here. (more…)
Promotional theme song: Deep love is as subdued as you by Zhou Shen (still on repeat in my playlist)
Aptly titled The Infernal Battlefield, the second instalment of the Brotherhood of Blades film series brings together a talented cast of actors in one of the best wuxia epics in recent years. The story formula hasn’t really changed since the first movie, but it’s worth watching for the cinematography and action choreography alone. Minor spoilers ahead.
Were you impressed at how gorgeous the new Tangren outfits for its upcoming Three Kingdoms drama. Yours truly happen to be currently in a Chu dynasty phase and immediately recognized them as strangely anachronistic. In fact, half of the patterns for their character posters came directly from the same tomb, the famous No. 1 Chu Tomb of Jiangling Mashan 江陵马山一号楚墓, dated about five centuries before the story’s time.
So, in honor of our beloved Tangren that seems to try each time to be slightly more historically accurate (albeit via the laziest way possible), here’s a a look at some of the patterns of Chu.
Deadly and seductive yet sweet and innocent at the same time, Song Yi 宋轶’s character won over the audience with her charm and beauty in The Disguiser. Nicknamed The Black Widow for killing her husband on their wedding night, Yu Manli was pardoned from a death sentence in exchange for becoming a secret agent. She is paired with Hu Ge‘s character in her missions and the two become life-and-death partners. Alas, his love is too idealistic and has no room for a girl from the streets like her.
The Central Drama Academy graduate recently signed under fellow alumni Zhang Han‘s workshop and will be collaborating with him in upcoming drama The Legendary Tycoon 传奇大亨 about the Shaw Brothers. I also highly recommend the second part of The Lovebirds series , for which she plays a female lead in the second part.
Photo cr: xueqingdaren@Weibo
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These photos feature the very young cast dressed in Versace for the upcoming New Dream of the Red Chamber series, for a piece called “Dreams in Versace” featured in iLook magazine. Those especially invited to participate in this photoshoot were Yang Yang (18 yrs) as Older Baoyu, Yu Xiaotong as Younger Baoyu (14), Li Qin as Young Baochai (18), Bai Bing as Older Baochai (22), and Jiang Mengjie as Lin Daiyu (19). Also in this photoshoot are Zhang Di as Jia Yingchun and Kang Qinzi as She Yue. In blue on the bottom is Yang Mi as Qing Wen, Baoyu’s servant. Below the cut are thumbnails from the rest of this shoot and some of my favorites.
