Xu Jinglei and Stanley Huang become “Dear Enemies” in new film

XU Jinglei Stanley Huang

Following the success of Go! Lala, Go!, Xu Jinglei directs another business romance where business ambitions and true love find each other.

Following her become the only female director to have a box office exceeding  100 million RMB after Go! Lala, Go!,   director/actress Xu Jinglei is back again with business romance “Dear Enemy 亲密敌人.”  In addition to starring Stanley Huang and herself, the film also features Gigi Leung, Aarif Lee and Zhao Baogang, the director who first brought Xu Jinglei to film.  The movie is shot in Hong Kong, Chengdu, England, Australia and South Africa, and will air December 23rd.

Watch the black and white trailer below:

Zhao Baogang Ditches Youth in New Drama

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Women (and not girls) rule over their male counterparts in this drama

Director Zhao Baogang came out with massive hit Struggle  in 2007, and returned in 2009 with another hit My Youthfulness that had the same sharp enjoyable dialogue. We were  thus anticipating his follow up, supposedly entitled Beijing Youth, in this trilogy of dramas portraying the lives of young Chinese.  But  instead he’s next tackling next Hun Yin Bao Wei Zhan, which deals with the lives of three married women and their different struggles with their increasing power in the workplace, and how they balance their homelife with it. We’re disappointed, but the plot of this drama is interesting enough to interest to see where he goes with it.

Synopsis and more promo pics below.

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