Hong Kong filmmaker Peter Ho-sun Chan talked through the many changes he’s seen in the Asian film business during his 35-year career in a TIFF Lounge Masterclass at Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). He also teased when we might get to see the second part of his period crime drama She Has No Name , the first part of which is playing in the Galas section at this year’s TIFF.

In conversation with TIFF Programming Director Shozo Ichiyama, Chan mapped out the different stages of his career, starting with personal Hong Kong dramas like He’s A Woman, She’s A Man and Comrades: Almost A Love Story in the 1990s; a stint in Hollywood and a phase of pioneering pan-Asian co-productions; before moving on to big-budget mainland Chinese epics such as The Warlords and Dragon ( Wu Xi

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