Hong Kong director Wayne Wang hits out at Chinese censorship

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

MADRID (AFP) — Hong Kong director Wayne Wang on Wednesday hit out at Chinese censorship as he presented his latest film "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" about the Chinese immigrant experience in the US, at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

"I'm a little sad when I see people that can't make their movies in China. It's kind of depressing that censorship is still happening in an economically powerful China," he said.

Wang revealed that China was to have stumped up half the budget for the film but pulled out because it objected to a line in the script where a character says: "Communism is good, it just got into bad hands".

He explained: "They said you have to quit the line. But I didn't because I live in a democratic country."

The director has long...