PIFF '09: Busan bigger than Bangkok

Asia's biggest film festival is under way in the coastal city of Busan, South Korea, where the 14th Pusan International Film Festival is unspooling a record 355 films from 70 countries, with 98 world premieres. It's all happening in the Shinsegae mall in Centum City, a new purpose-built complex for the film industry that is being touted as "the Hub of Asian Cinema".

Josh Hartnett is there representing Hollywood’s A-list. He's starring in I Come with the Rain, a crime thriller set in Hong Kong and directed by Vietnamese-French filmmaker Tran Anh Hung.


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