A trailer has been released for “Mother Bhumi,” the latest feature from Malaysian director Chong Keat Aun, starring Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing in her return to international cinema.
The film has its world premiere in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
The drama, which also stars Hong Kong’s Natalie Hsu, Taiwanese-Japanese actor Bai Run-yin, and Malaysian stage veteran Pearlly Chua, is set in late-1990s Malaysia amid political unrest. Fan plays Hong Im, a widowed farmer and ritual healer who struggles to protect her family in a multi-ethnic rice-farming village while resisting land seizures by day and performing exorcisms by night.
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