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PARIS: Chinese filmmakers must fight censorship even if it means removing their name from their own work, one-time banned Chinese director Lou Ye told AFP ahead of this month's Asian Film Awards. <\/p>\n
His crime thriller \"Mystery\" has been nominated in six categories at this year's awards. <\/p>\n
Lou's film, his second since he was banned from filming in China for five years in 2006, tackles the subject of a new breed of wealthy and middle income men in post-socialist China for whom taking a mistress is the norm, in a practice that harks back to imperial China. <\/p>\n
With nominations including best film, best director and best actress for Hao Lei's portrayal of a betrayed wife, \"Mystery\" begins with a violent death and tells the story of one man's double life. <\/p>\n
\"The film is about a very small group of people. It is about what happens between two women, the double life that this man leads, but through this I get to talk about things that happen in wider society,\" he said in Paris where the film was shown as part of a China programme at the city's Forum des Images in February. <\/p>\n
\"What is important to me is the way in which we see that all the protagonists are linked to the death of this young girl, the way that no-one can say this has nothing to do with me,\" he said. <\/p>\n
According to Lou, having a mistress is now commonplace in China for anyone with sufficient means. <\/p>\n
\"Currently we see this way of life in particular among people who have money,\" he said adding that it was seen as a status symbol for men while a woman acting in the same way would be stigmatised. <\/p>\n
The film is his second since the end of the ban imposed after he took his love story \"Summer Palace\", set around the taboo subject of the 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests, to Cannes without official approval. <\/p>\n
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