Blood Brothers | （天堂哭）

Wow,

I thought I was a loser not blogging recently but I just realized that I was the last person to blog so that makes Terence, Conroy and Andrew even bigger losers! :-)

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. I normally don't celebrate my birthday but my parents were in Hong Kong and they have not been with me on my birthday since I went to college...15 years ago! Oh man, that just made me feel really old. See why I don't celebrate my birthday? Anyway, got together at my sister's house for a nice home cooked family dinner. I'd forgotten how good my sister's cooking is.

After the crazy whirlwind promotional tour for The Banquet, I am now settling in to my new surroundings here in Shanghai where I am filming a new movie called "Blood Brothers" or "Tian Tang Kou" in Chinese. This should be a fun project because I get to work worth a bunch of actors that I really like and respect. Chang Chen is an actor I have known as a friend for many years but have never had the chance to work with. Liu Ye is another guy that I like a lot and never worked with before. We also have Shu Qi, whom I have not worked with since Beijing Rocks, many years ago. The up and coming Yang You Ning from Taiwan is playing my best friend. The film is produced by John Woo, a living legend of action cinema, and it looks like it will have some of his action sensibilities. I think it's going to be fun working on this one. I'll post some photos as we get further into the shoot.

Later this month I will take a break from filming to go to the Pusan and Tokyo Film Festivals. In Pusan I will be going for THK and Ming Ming(formerly NaNa, a film I did with Zhou Xun almost 2 years ago) and for Tokyo I'll just be going for THK. I have never been to Pusan before and I hear it's a great festival, a kind of Asian version of Cannes right on the beach. I've been to Korea very few times but I was surprised to see so many fans while promoting "The Banquet". Thanks for the support! Too bad every time I go, I've got so much work to do and never have time to see anything. The Tokyo Film Festival I have been to many times but this will be the first time I go as a director, I wonder if it will be different. We are trying to get the boys together there for an ALIVE reunion. As I have been super busy the past couple of months, we have not seen each other all together in a long time. I've also got some old college classmates in Japan that I'm looking forward to seeing.

I'll be here in Shanghai till December..after that? Don't know...maybe disappear for a while?

Ok, take care!

Daniel

哇噢！

我還以為我頗失敗的呢，因為最近都沒上部落格，誰曉得原來我這個包尾大班，倒教子維、子聰和連凱成了更大的失敗者！

謝謝所有對我的生日祝願。其實我一向都不做生日，但是因為我的父母都來了香港，他們很久沒有跟我一起過我的生日，是從我上大學…十五年前！好傢伙！這可真教我覺得老了。知道我為什麽不喜歡過生日了吧﹖管它！能一家人在我姊姊家聚餐真好，我都差不多忘了我姊姊做的菜有多好吃了！

在完成了「夜宴」旋風式的宣傳之旅之後，我又被安顿在上海這份新工作裏，這部新片叫「BLOOD BROTHERS」或中文片名叫「天堂哭」。這會是個有趣的工作，因為一起拍擋的演員們都是我喜歡和敬重的。張震是我多年的老友，可我從來沒能有機會跟他合作過。劉燁是另一個我喜歡而之前從沒合作過的演員。我們還有舒淇，我跟她是自「北京樂與怒」到現在，已經好多年了。還有從台灣來的楊佑寧會演我的好朋友。電影是由吳宇森監製，一個動作片的傳奇人物。影片將会很有他那種動作片的感覺。我想這一次拍攝過程肯定過癮。我會把我們拍攝時的精彩鏡頭貼上網。

過了這個月，我會抽空去釜山和東京參加電影節，到釜山，是為THK和Ming Ming（以前叫Na Na，是我和周迅在兩年前拍的）。到東京，我只是光為THK。我從來沒去過釜山，但聽說那個電影節很棒，就像康城影展的亞洲版，也是在海邊。

我只到過幾次韓國，在作「夜宴」的宣傳時，我還很意外，怎麼會有這麼多影迷。真的非常感謝！遺憾的是每次我去，都因為工作太多而沒有時間好好地看看當地的事物。至於東京電影節，我去過好幾回，但這次可是我頭一次以導演的身份去！我想這可會有點不同。我們正在嘗試四個人能一起去，讓ALIVE可以重聚。過去那幾個月可真忙得夠嗆，我們有很長一段時間沒有聚在一起了，我還有些以前大學的同學在日本，這回希望可以見他們一見。

我會在上海呆到十二月，這之後﹖不知道囉…，也許…消失一段時間﹖

好吧！保重了！

彥祖