#TangWei

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Tang Wei and NMIXX are LOEWE's New Ambassadors

[regentstreetcinema]

Ooh, okay, we've got a really special treat coming up: on Monday, we're showing #DecisionToLeave, with a pre-recorded Q&A between the film's director Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon Ho. One to see on the big screen, for sure.

[yanarchy072]

・ ・ 『別れる決心』観た。 ・ くすくす笑えるシーンがあって、「緊張と緩和」なのか、その相乗効果で嗚呼！切なくなった 男はこれから、どう生きていくのか？ ・ #別れる決心 #DecisiontoLeave #パクチャヌク #ParkChanwook ・ #タンウェイ #TangWei #パクヘイル #ParkHaeil ・ #ロマンティックミステリー #Romanticmystery #韓国映画 #Koreanfilm ・ #映画 #movie #ビバムビ #instamovie #moviestagram #instagood #instapic (TOHO シネマズ 日比谷) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpPJWMlL72C/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[widereading]

𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐) | Fiction ⁣ ⁣ 

★ ★ ★ ★: <crime, mystery, romance, film noir>⁣ ⁣ 

Happy new year! Hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable start. ⁣ ⁣ 

Decision to Leave is directed by Park Chan-wook (other titles include the Handmaiden) and is a South-Korean film. I watched it on Netflix recently when I was in Korea (approx 139 mins running time). ⁣ ⁣ 

The film depicts the interactions between a detective and his murder suspect (Tang Wei). The cinematography is beautiful and I love how much was expressed in a scene without saying much (dialogue wise). The translation piece for this work was also interesting and I love how the translator adapted the Chinese language for Korean and international audiences. ⁣ ⁣ 

I've been waiting for it to be available for streaming on Mubi but it doesn't seem to be available just yet!

[vassilis-dimitros]

Song Seo-rae

From Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave”

[awardseasonblog]

Annunciate le nominations ai Sunset Circle Awards (#SCAwards), i riconoscimenti assegnati da un ristretto e autorevole gruppo di critici americani. Quest'anno a conquistare il maggior numero di candidature (6) sono stati 2 film: -#WomenTalking di Sarah Polley (film, regia, script, cast, colonna sonora e supporter #ClaireFoy) e il candidato della Corea del Sud ai prossimi Oscar #DecisiontoLeave di Park Chan-wook (film, film internazionale, regia, script, montaggio, attrice #TangWei) Seguono a quota 5 nominations: #TAR (film, regia, attrice #CateBlanchett, script, fotografia), #SheSaid (film, supporter femminile #CareyMulligan, cast, scene stealer) e #TopGunMaverick (film, regia, attore #TomCruise, cast, montaggio). Ecco la lista dei principali candidati: BEST FILM #Aftersun #DecisionToLeave #Elvis #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce #TheMenu #RRRMovie #SheSaid #TAR #TopGunMaverick #WomenTalking BEST DIRECTOR Todd Field - TAR Joseph Kosinski - Top Gun: Maverick Park Chan-wook - Decision To Leave Sarah Polley - Women Talking S.S. Rajamouli - RRR BEST ACTRESS Cate Blanchett - TAR Danielle Deadwyler - Till Mia Goth - Pearl/X Tang Wei - Decision To Leave Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All At Once BEST ACTOR Austin Butler - Elvis Tom Cruise - Top Gun: Maverick Colin Farrell - Gli Spiriti dell'isola Brendan Fraser - The Whale Paul Mescal - Aftersun BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Paul Dano - The Fabelmans Brendan Gleeson - Gli Spiriti dell'isola Brian Tyree Henry - Causeway Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All At Once Micheal Ward - Empire Of Light BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Angela Bassett - WakandaForever    Claire Foy - Women Talking Hong Chau - The Whale/ The Menu Thuso Mbedu - The Woman King Carey Mulligan - She Said BEST ENSEMBLE Everything Everywhere All At Once The Menu She Said Top Gun:Maverick Women Talking BEST SCREENPLAY Decision To Leave The Menu SheSaid TAR Women Talking BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM All Quiet On The Western Front Athena Decision To Leave Holy Spider RRR #SCA2022 #AwardsSeason https://www.instagram.com/p/ClO3M3-sfyp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Film Review: DECISION TO LEAVE (2022): Two Solid Lead Performances Drive Park Chan-wook's Latest Dramatic Film https://film-book.com/film-review-decision-to-leave-2022-two-solid-lead-performances-drive-park-chan-wooks-latest-dramatic-film/?feed_id=107058&_unique_id=634c75101d50e

[twotrey23]

#movie screening today... #DecisionToLeave . #TangWei #ParkHaeIl #ParkChanWook #film #cinema #movies #films #Korea #SouthKorea #Korean (at Sepulveda Screening Room) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiTOllSPNfz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[peace-coast-island]

Diary of a Junebug

Light a bonfire to guide a lost soul home to the wind and stars

The tranquil waters of Tangwei are mesmerizing to gaze at. And funny enough, once again we’ve been hanging around a bonfire at the beach. I mean, it’s the ideal weather for this kind of thing, so why not? It won’t be long before it starts to get dark earlier, which is hard to believe. There’s a bit of a chill in the air now and some of the leaves are starting to turn.

Raiden and Kayo invited me, Daisy Jane, and Almie to spend a short vacation up here since it’s the perfect season for going on boat rides at the river. So we rented a cabin like they suggested and managed to find a place that’s somewhat quiet with a lovely view of the water.

Along with enjoying the sights and waters of Tangwei, we had another reason to visit. This weekend also happened to be Maki’s official induction into the Skylight Dusk Detective Agency. Unexpected, though Raiden said not entirely because of Kayo.

The detective agency, as Raiden and Kayo have said, are a lively bunch. There’s Kiyowara, who’s all serious and no nonsense. And there’s everyone else, who’s on all different levels of chaotic and unhinged. Then again, they’re all geniuses with unusual powers who have been through shit, so they get a free pass for being weird and eccentric and hard to understand.

Now that Maki’s in the group, she and Kayo are trying to get Kamo and maybe even Ayame to join too. Even though the main purpose of the detective agency was for people with unusual abilities to work together, those kinds of people are few and far between, which was why they accepted Kayo and Maki even though they don’t fall into that category. However, Kayo’s a specialized shinobi who’s a part of Galen, and Maki’s a skilled sorcerer from a once prominent clan.

There’s no verdict on whether Kamo’s joining, mainly because he’s not as well acquainted with the agency. However, being a sorcerer hailing from the same clan as Maki, his experience and expertise would make him a vital asset to the team. And although Ayame doesn’t possess any special abilities despite being born in the same clan, she’s said to be good at working with people, especially since she basically raised Kamo and his peers - meaning, she can deal with the craziness that goes on and do damage control when needed.

And what fitting way to celebrate than hanging out at the river? Nothing too extravagant, just a nice, chill get-together with friends. Things have been a little slow for the agency, so now’s the perfect time to plan something like this. And besides, I don’t think you need to plan out something elaborate just to hang out. Sometimes it’s the low key and quiet moments that really stick with you.

Get togethers shouldn’t be a competition to show off how much you can impress others by being a good host or planning to do as many things as possible. Just do what makes everyone happy, even if it means not doing much at all.

Although I say that it’s been pretty chill, that’s not to say that stuff didn’t happen. By that, I mean that tonight’s bonfire was special for because it had something to do with the agency, something that had been hanging over their heads for a couple years that they can finally put to rest now.

Sometimes it’s fun being a spectator, to see things that you won’t normally get to see because to most, it’s mundane, everyday stuff. It may not be quite the same as a typical case, but it was still interesting to see the agency in action. Plus, part of this trip was to learn a little more about the agency, so I’d say I got quite a lot out of it - and so did Kayo and Maki.

Kayo was playing tour guide while we were boating along the river when Sayo received a text from Akinori about an emergency meeting. What I didn’t expect was that Akinori wanted me, Raiden, Daisy Jane, and Almie to join the meeting too. His explanation was that it’s not a private matter and that they needed some outside help too. That explains why Kaiji, Akara, and Elle were there too.

Basically, it had something to do with someone who went missing years ago. That person, Maia, had powers similar to Amane where she could transform into a creature, which was a dragon in her case. According to Sayo, she sought the agency for protection and would’ve become a member if she hadn’t fled. This happened not too long before Amane and Ari joined the group as they were affected by what happened to Maia that they did not want to make the same mistakes later on.

Like Amane, Maia was the target of a secret organization due to her unique abilities. Kiyowara and Akara said they made the grave mistake of underestimating exactly how much danger Maia was in. Going by how the agency - and Tangwei as a whole - operates, they’re used to this kind of thing.

However, the same can’t be said for someone like Maia who’s not used to dealing with that kind of thing. And they don’t blame her - Amane, they said, almost fled too because he also thought that was the safer option as he didn’t want to put the city in unnecessary danger because of him.

After a few run-ins too many with the organization hunting her down, Maia thought it would be better if she left the city and deal with the situation herself. Akara, Sakura, and the agency tried to get her to stay, but they couldn’t convince her, nor there were any better options.

Using whatever money she saved up, the furthest Maia was able to travel to was Chilopoda, which, according to Akinori, is in the middle of nowhere. Kun planned her escape so no one could trace her whereabouts or catch her off guard. Even though the escape route was convoluted - that was how they described it - she managed to leave the city without running into any trouble.

Looking back, the agency felt that things went too smoothly, though I don’t think that really had to do with anything. However, the problems that Maia would face later on had nothing to do with the organization that was harassing her. In fact, they apparently lost interest a couple months later - or, most likely, they didn’t want to admit that they couldn’t find her. So that’s where the story should’ve ended, right?

From here, things get cloudy and unclear. Although we’ve been able to piece a general idea of what happened, there’s still a lot that we don’t know - and we probably never will. All we know for certain was that Chilopoda was descending into chaos. Kiyowara had been sporadically keeping tabs on Maia and knew something was wrong when she didn’t respond right away.

Later, Akara found out that the conflict in Chilopoda was growing from bad to worse. She and Kiyowara had planned to get her, only to find out that the city was on lockdown. War later broke out and communication was cut off entirely. Months later, they received a vague message from Maia warning them not to come anywhere near Chilopoda. And that was the last time they ever heard from her.

For years, Maia’s disappearance has haunted the agency. As time went on, it looked more and more likely that she was dead, especially as Chilopoda was basically decimated by the war. There had been hope that Maia evacuated with most of the city to Apolline, where it was supposed to be safe. But all hopes were dashed when the conflict inevitably reached there too.

Then a couple days ago, Akinori found the missing piece that allowed him to put together what happened to Maia. Someone sent him an envelope full of messages and classified documents between her and an esper she befriended in Chilopoda. The sender was the esper’s brother, who was going through his sister’s belongings when he found a hard drive hidden away.

From their messages, we were able to begin to piece together what happened during that time, as well as the fates of Maia and Winn. Just as the others speculated, Maia did evacuate to Apolline. Based on the messages between her and Winn, they managed to avoid the worst of the destruction in Chilopoda. However, it seemed like their luck ran out in Apolline.

After contacting Winn’s brother, Akinori was able to figure out what happened after Apolline. At least, a general idea. Maia and Winn joined an anti-war group and had several run-ins with the law. Going through the red tape isn’t easy, but Akinori, Kiyowara, and Akara have their ways. The way Apolline dealt with the protests is still a sensitive subject since the authorities covered up a lot of things.

That explains a lot, like why Maia’s message was delayed and no one could get a straight answer. Akinori figured that Maia and Winn tried to take matters into their own hands. And since they were outsiders, that made the authorities see them as a threat.

Raiden felt that the timing of Winn’s brother finding her laptop and the former Apolline officer who still holds a grudge against those who opposed him showing up was no coincidence. The final piece for Akinori was the ribbon he used for the tag on his duffel bag, which happened to be the same exact one that Maia wore in her hair. Just as she suspected, the officer tried to intercept Winn’s brother and Akinori after hearing about the hard drive.

Just as Akinori predicted, the officer was all talk and no spine. As soon as Kiyowara pressed him, he folded. He confessed to harassing Maia and Winn, and when they refused to back down, he got more aggressive. Finally, he got his subordinates to gang up and imprison the so-called rebels. For weeks, they interrogated and tortured them until they were too weak to fight back and threw them out.

Because of the chaos of the war, people were dying left and right, most of them without any form of identification. After digging through the records, Akinori was able to identify Maia and Winn as the two unidentified young women found dead in an alley after a deadly frost that killed a lot of people who were forced to live on the streets.

And that’s the whole story. Kind of a lot to take in. And going by what Akara says, it’s only just the beginning. Though the war in Chilopoda ended in a stalemate, there’s still a lot of political unrest over there, especially with Apolline trying to take advantage of the chaos for their own benefit. Now with evidence from Maia and Winn, Apolline’s Brigade has a lot to answer to.

As for what happens next, Akara says that it’s unfortunately out of the agency’s hands. Sayo and Akinori weren’t happy to hear that, but it can’t be helped. After all, it’s not in their jurisdiction, and they view outsiders as a threat. There’s no point in stirring up even more trouble. But they managed to open something up, and that’s what counts. If it weren’t for Maia and Winn, who knows how long the Brigade plans to keep up with their act of playing ignorant?

Although I wish things could’ve turned out better for Maia and Winn, I’m glad that we finally have some closure for them, and that their deaths won’t be in vain. The agency, especially Kiyowara, Akinori, and Sayo have a lot of regrets for not being able to help Maia. Sayo said she and Amane would’ve been good friends since they had similar personalities and endured similar circumstances. She also said that Kun was haunted by Maia’s disappearance and that later influenced how he approached Amane, Ari, and Lucy when they were thrown into conflict and sought the agency’s protection.

Elle kinda took it hard at first since she, aside from the agency, was closest to Maia and took it pretty hard when she left. What gets to her the most was that Maia kept putting herself down as a coward, someone who flees when there’s conflict. I mean, it’s understandable - if I were in her position, not only I’d want to avoid it whenever possible, but also not end up unintentionally dragging other people into it as well. Overall, it sounds like it was a complicated situation where even if you do the “right” thing, another problem will pop up, and it just keeps piling on. There’s just no winning with these kinds of situations as even a good outcome won’t mean everything worked out.

However, for someone who claimed to be a coward, the kind of person who’s not worth protecting, Maia really stuck her neck out to confront those Apolline guards. There were a lot of protestors, but she and Winn were, by far, the most vocal. Maybe it’s because they both have special powers that they were seen as even more of a threat than just their status as outsiders. According to Tai, Maia was not as passive as she made herself out to be and won’t hesitate to step into harm’s way at the cost of her own safety. She was also incredibly stubborn, the kind to stick to her principles. In other words, she sounded like the sacrificial type.

Like Akara said, there’s still a lot to uncover about the Chilopoda and Apolline conflict as well as Maia and Winn’s final months. Getting closure is more than finding out what happened in the end, it’s also about filling in the gaps in between and using that information to pick up where the story abruptly cut off. They obviously have regrets for how things turned out, and maybe that’ll never go away. But at least they can do something about it, and who knows what comes out of it?

Raiden was right about the agency’s tenacity and their strong sense of justice. There’s a reason why Tangwei looks up to them. They, along with Galen, are what holds this city together. A lot of their members come from different backgrounds, with the one common thread bringing them together being their reason for living.

A lot of these people - at least the agency as a whole - were at their lowest before coming together. They had been exploited for their powers, leading them to hate themselves and feeling like the world was better off without them. It was people like Akara, Sakura, and Kiyowara who gave back their will to live, to live life on their own terms, and to be themselves. To use their powers the way they want to instead of being controlled by someone for their own personal gains. To learn how to accept themselves as they are and that they are allowed to exist, to be alive, because they’re living in this world.

And I wish more people in this world could be more like that. Maybe then, a lot of us wouldn’t be struggling a lot just to get through the day.

That night, we paid our respects to the fallen with a bonfire by the river. It was a bit chilly, so we had the area to ourselves. Elle took Maia’s ribbon that Akinori confiscated from the officer and tied it to a box that contained a couple mementos she had left behind. Winn’s brother had a small box with some of his sister’s stuff as well. Seeing that they were closest to the deceased, they had the honor of lighting the fires and scattering the ashes to the wind.

It was a quiet night, which was fitting for the occasion. Akara’s lived here her whole life and says the river and sea always marks the beginning or end of something. Seems kinda fitting since it’s the main entrance and exit to the city, as well as the place where many have fought various calamities over the centuries. In the end, when we die, we all go back to the same place, wherever that is.

I can’t say what will happen in the future, but knowing the Skyline Dusk Detective Agency, they won’t rest until justice is served and the fallen won’t be buried and forgotten.

May the waters of Tangwei and the flame from our fire guide Maia and Winn back home.

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[okabehk]

Title: #DecisionToLeave

Main Cast: #TangWei #ParkHaeIl, written and directed by #ParkChanWook

Platform: #Mubi

What a beautifully exquisite yet absolutely tragic love story. This will go down as maybe the best film I've seen in 2022. It starts out as an investigation into the death of a man that fell to his death while rock climbing. Through this investigation the lead detective meets the mans wife and an interesting relationship develops. This relationship was where the film comes alive. It makes for a very complicated love story. I've never seen anything like it, and that ending just kind of unsettles your heart (okay it absolutely unsettles it). It's a lesson about what happens when pride comes before love and the consequences you endure because of it. This was beautifully written and filmed, I can't say enough about it, definitely definitely definitely recommend!!!!!

[magnusnormal]

TangWei's spoon

[everydayeveryday]

“Folks, the good time in our lives don’t last too long. So take it manage the moment. Open your heart and love it now!”

Late Autumn (2010) | Kim Tae-yong

[a-bujiang]

地球最后的夜晚

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Portrait painting for a Chinese film star — Tangwei #illustration #fashionillustration #fashionillustrations #fashionillustrator #fashionsketch #fashionsketches #designs #fashiondesigner #fashionillustrator #drawing #beautifulgirl #fashiongirl #model #graphicdesign #graphics #ink #inkdrawing #chineseink #chinesestyle #chinesegirl #chinesepainting #blackandwhite #penandink #tangwei #chinesefilmstar #chinesefilm #portrait #portraitpainting #汤唯 #旗袍#qipao #cheongsan #chinesedress

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C'è molta attesa per la seconda parte della stagione cinematografica 2022 che secondo gli addetti del settore sarà caratterizzata da performance femminili di grande impatto sul pubblico. In quest'ottica, anche se mancano ancora 3 mesi prima dell’inizio ufficiale dell’Awards Season, crescono le aspettative della critica americana verso le interpretazioni più attese della stagione. Su questa lunghezza d'onda un indicatore forte per questa categoria potrebbe essere il prossimo Festival di Venezia dato che nelle ultime 6 edizioni 4 volte la vincitrice della Coppa Volpi ha successivamente ottenuto la candidatura agli Oscar (dalle vincenti Emma Stone per La la land e Olivia Colman per La Favorita a Vanessa Kirby per Pieces of Woman e Penelope Cruz per Madres Paralelas). Senza dimenticare che a settembre dello scorso anno in uno dei circuiti festivalieri che precedono l'Awards Season come il San Sebastián International Film Festival Jessica Chastain ha iniziato la sua corsa all'Oscar vincendo la Conchiglia d'Oro come Miglior attrice per la sua premiata prova nel biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Lo scorso anno 4 performance che ho indicato nelle previsioni di luglio 2022 hanno ottenuto successivamente la nomination all'Oscar. Ecco di seguito una potenziale graduatoria sulle attrici che hanno più chance di entrare nella prossima Stagione dei Premi. (LINK IN BIO) #AwardsSeason #OscarsRace #RoadtoOscar #AwardsRace #Movies #Awards #BestActress #Oscars2023 #Oscarpredictions #StagionedeiPremi #Migliorattrice #Oscar2023 #previsioni #pronostici #OliviaColman (The Empire of Light) #JenniferLawrence (Red, White and Water) #ViolaDavis (The Woman King) #HelenMirren (Golda) #TangWei (Decision To Leave) #FlorencePugh (DontWorryDarling) #MichelleWilliams (Showing Up) #NaomiAckie (I Wanna Dance with Somebody) #AnaDeArmas (Blonde) #MargotRobbie (Babylon) #ReginaKing (Shirley) #CateBlanchett (TAR) #MichelleYeoh (Everything Everywhere all at once) #DanielleDeadwyler (Till) #CareyMulligan (She Said) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgPRukXMWse/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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DECISION TO LEAVE (2022) Movie Trailer 2: Park Chan-wook's Crime Drama on a Mysterious Death & Burgeoning Feelings https://film-book.com/decision-to-leave-2022-movie-trailer-2-park-chan-wooks-crime-drama-on-a-mysterious-death-burgeoning-feelings/?feed_id=99370&_unique_id=6323abc801c8b