But Mr. Feng said he had no choice. “We wanted this film to hit the screens more than anyone.”Liang Pengfei, a Chinese film critic, wrote on a Chinese news site, Observer, that the losses caused by suddenly postponing the film’s release “can be estimated to run to tens of millions” in Chinese renminbi, which would be millions in dollars. Mr. Feng, 59, is a popular director who has learned to work within, and sometimes adroitly nudge against, China’s heavy boundaries of censorship. Mr. Zhan noted, “Youth” had already passed the scrutiny of Chinese censors, and it was shown at the Toronto Film Festival this month. “This is not extolling war,” Mr. Feng said of “Youth” last month.

Source: New York Times September 25, 2017 10:50 UTC