“No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti” – a Taiwanese social drama – won Chinese cinema’s top honor

Saturday the Taiwanese social drama “No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti”  won Chinese cinema’s top honor. That was a real surprise because despite the small budget, this is a well written, well directed and beautifully acted movie.

“No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti”  is a black-and-white movie working-class single father who struggles to retain custody of his daughter. To do this he takes on risky tasks on boats to earn money. It is based on a true story that conveys a quest of love that knows no bounds.

Taiwan Golden Horse Awards

The Taiwanese social drama won best original screenplay and outstanding Taiwanese film of the year at the 46th Golden Horse Awards.

Leon Dai, the man who directed produced, edited and wrote the screenplay, told reporters : “I especially want to thank this piece of land, Taiwan. It’s this land that nurtured this movie. And we have been working hard to use the nutrition we received to develop this land”.

Hong Kong actor Nick Cheung and his Chinese counterpart Huang Bo, both won the best actor competition.  Cheung played the role of a former boxer who takes a kidnapping job so he can care for his sick wife in “The Beast Stalker” and Huang played the role of a man in “Cow” who tries to protect a dairy cow from Japanese soldiers who wiped out his fellow villagers in 1940s China.

Huang said to the press:  “I still want to thank my baby — my big dairy cow. I will give you some good feed when I get back”.

The award best actress went to China’s Li Bingbing for the thriller  “The Message”:  “There were no easy scenes in this movie. If you wanted to take it easy or let your form slip in a scene in the movie, you didn’t have the chance to do so. This is a very serious movie. It doesn’t allow you any margin of error”.