Hong Kong's Sean Lau named best actor at Asian Film Awards for role in Papa
Hong Kong's Sean Lau Ching-wan was named best actor at the Asian Film Awards on Sunday for his powerful portrayal of a grieving father in the family drama Papa, while local movie Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In won for best editing and best production design.
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The Last Dance , a drama centred on the funeral trade and which has become the highest-grossing local production in Hong Kong, won composer Chu Wan-pin the award for best original music.
Thirty films from 25 countries and regions competed across 16 categories, with many of Asia-Pacific's biggest names in cinema gathered at the Xiqu Centre in West Kowloon for the awards ceremony.
Papa , directed by Philip Yung Chi-kwong, was inspired by the real-life Tsuen Wan murder case in 2010, in which a son killed his mother and sister.
Lau plays the emotionally haunted father who grapples with the brutal reality that his only surviving child is also responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter.
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'I'm happy. Papa is a Hong Kong production,' the actor said in his acceptance speech. 'I am also thankful to director Philip Yung for his trust in me all along … I'm confident in Hong Kong-made films – let's all work together.'
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