‘Take Off’ Director Pengfei on Tokyo Competition Entry: ‘A Fable-Like Story, With a Touch of Fairy Tale’

Director Pengfei’s “Take Off,” which world premiered in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival, represents both a continuation and evolution of the filmmaker’s artistic preoccupations. Adapted from Shuang Xuetao’s novella “The Aeronaut,” the film follows Li Mingqi (Jiang Qiming), an ordinary worker in Northeast China who inherits his late father’s obsession with flight – […]