The Shanghai International Film Festival has added additional Asian titles to its Golden Goblet international competition.

The three new entries are Gao Qunshu's Beijing Blues, Huo Jianqi's Falling Flowers and Uchida Kenji's Key of Life.

Beijing Blues is a documentary-style police drama featuring non-professional actors. Gao won the runner-up Jury Grand Prix at Shanghai with his second feature Old Fish (2007).

Falling Flowers is a melodrama about two writers trapped in Hong Kong during the Sino-Japanese war starring Song Jia and Huang Jue. Huo previously won the Golden Goblet for best film with Life Show (2002).

Key of Life is a black comedy about a failed actor contemplating suicide who switches identities with a rich businessman who has amnesia, only to inherit problems with the yakuza. It is scheduled to open in Japan in September.

Seventeen films are now in competition including the previously announced Indian entry Colour of Sky, directed by Bijukumar Damodaran.

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