Asia's leading cinema event kicked off Wednesday night with its first red carpet in three years and ticket sales approaching '90 percent compared to 2019.'
The opening ceremony, which took place at the festival’s main venue, the Busan Cinema Center, was attended by Asian cinema luminaries and celebrities, including Hong Kong screen icon Tony Leung, Korean star Song Kang-ho, Korean-American actor Daniel Dae Kim, Thai actor-model Mario Maurer and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Leung, who starred last year in Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and will next be seen in Felix Chong’s crime film Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong, was feted with the festival’s Asian Filmmaker of the Year award Wednesday night. “It’s really my great honor to receive this recognition at the Busan
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