A sure sign of time’s relentless passing is when one is forced to examine memories of the past with the reality of the present. In the 2015 issue of GQ Taiwan, the magazine featured one of the most critically acclaimed Taiwanese heartthrob movie actors of the last decade, in a pictorial and interview and addresses his aging head on. The spread is so evocative it’s worth sharing even if I don’t write about Asian cinema as much these days. Takeshi Kaneshiro (Jin Cheng Wu) is the face of GQ Taiwan and discussing his noticeable aging now that he’s all of 42 years old and has plenty of white hairs.
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