Fan Bingbing to star in neo-noir thriller set for October 18th release

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Green Night is a neo-noir crime thriller starring female and Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing, set to premiere on VOD in the US on October 18

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Fan Bingbing stars in Green Night, a neo-noir thriller set to premiere on VOD in the US on October 18.

Fan Bingbing plays a customs officer who comes into conflict with Lee Joo-young, leading to a series of dangerous crimes.

Described as “Thelma & Louise meets Living Blue,” Green Night is an intense drama with a female lead.

Director Han Shuai draws from her experiences to create this gritty, feminist neo-noir tale.

Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing stars in Green Nightneo-noir that Western audiences don’t often expect from Chinese or Asian cinema. She plays a Chinese immigrant working at the customs office at Incheon Airport in South Korea who notices a mysterious green-haired girl (Lee Joo Young) acting suspiciously at a checkpoint. That’s when everything changes. She’s surprised by the wild and seemingly free nature of the green-haired girl, despite the latter clearly being involved in a crime. Overcome by the unspoken attraction between them, she takes the mysterious stranger home, only to discover that she’s part of a deadly drug ring. After killing her abusive husband, the pair go on the run, with both the drug cartel and the police on their tails.

Art Poster: Film Movement

Green Night has been described as “Thelma and Louise is meeting Blue is the warmest color“in Han Shuai’s female-led neo-noir thriller. It stars international megastar Fan Bingbing in a bold performance that is “regarded as one of the rawest of her career” (South China Morning Post).

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Green Night Director Han Shuai on Collaborating with Fan Bingbing on a Feminist Neo-Noir Thriller

Green Night is based on the director Han Shuaiobserving the plight of women in the Chinese coastal town where she grew up, on the border with South Korea near Incheon Airport, and came up with the idea for a neo-noir crime film starring women. She spoke with Fan Bingbing about playing the lead role of a Chinese immigrant who falls in love with a Korean woman, in order to explore how women are perceived in Asian society. “We started working together because we both wanted to make a film with two very different women in the same frame. Fan Bingbing once told me about her reaction to watching Blue is the warmest color,“Han said. “The film made her think about the prospect of acting opposite another woman, creating a unique kind of on-screen chemistry. She believed it would give her the opportunity to experiment with different acting techniques. Fan Bingbing, known for portraying beautiful women in the eyes of men, had previous on-screen partners who were men. Working with Li Yu, she realized she could be more authentic working with a female director.”

Photo courtesy of Film Movement

There has been a slow trend of crime films with horror elements in China over the past decade, but it is rare to find a neo-noir thriller starring women Green Night and by a female director (though the country has its share of female directors). Really, that should be more normal than it seems these days. New York distributor Film Movement will release the film on VOD in the U.S. on October 18.

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