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It looks like American born actor and martial artist Andy On has a new online movie gracing the small screen almost every week. “To Live through Death” sees him team up with another iQIYI regular, Hong Kong veteran action star Louis Fan Siu Wong as leads for the first time. Written by first time mainland director Ren Gao Liang, this action movie released by iQIYI, one of Beijing’s top video on-demand streaming platforms, is one of the countless movies flooding the web.

Joint Street, Tangda Island, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean where migrant workers come to settle. Lin Hai Ya, a small-time thug, robs a stack of gold bars for gang boss Paquin (Yu Kang) who holds his wife and young daughter as hostages. The gangsters kill his family regardless and Lin takes off with the gold to his uncle’s clinic to get a facelift to change his appearance and disappears.

The bond between a child and her mother is explored in Yaxing Lin's poignant short film “Playground.” This low-budget production, which includes support from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, utilizes the available funds and cast to create a dreamlike experience of survival in a reality where the world is indifferent to those struggling. Additionally, it presents the perspective of a curious little girl protective of her single parent.

Playground is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival

In the story, a little girl named Jiajia wanders the streets at night, searching for her mother, Qun Lin. She happens upon the place where her mom works, which is an adult entertainment club. Shocked to see her daughter there but not wanting to send her back into the night, Lin lets her inside, so long as she allows her to work, and refers to her as “auntie” instead. Here, Jiajia is...