War tale gets art-house look

Award-winning director brings a story based on Chinese guerilla force, the Dongjiang Column, to life. Xu Fan reports.

Unlike most wartime movies full of gunfire and explosions, Ann Hui's upcoming feature Our Time Will Come - set during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong between 1941 and 1945 - is different.

In a clip from the movie, actress Zhou Xun, starring as a teacher-turned-fighter, recites lines from Chinese literary master Mao Dun's famous essay Huang Hun (Nightfall), creating an art-house atmosphere, but also giving a hint of the coming turbulence in the new work by the winner of many Hong Kong Film Awards - the best director prize five times.