TheHong Kong International Film Festivalhas scrapped its opening-night world premiere of Where the Wind Blows, a widely anticipated crime thriller directed by local industry veteran Philip Yung.
The festival said in a statement that the cancellation was made "upon request from the film owner" due to "technical reasons." Over the past several years, such references to vague "technical problems" have become a common euphemism for last-minute censorship complaints by China's increasingly repressive film regulators.
Early promotion suggested that Where the Wind Blows would hew to the classic Hong Kong gangster genre, a category second only to martial arts cinema as the city's most defining and internationally beloved mode of moviemaking.
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