Synopsis Green Green Leaves of Home is the first Hakka language production in Taiwan film history. Set in the mid-seventies, the film tells a story both touching and nostalgic about the purity and the beauty of friendship, true love, simple way of living, and human nature. It is the debut film by film critic and TV writer/director Deyung Chou. It challenges the current trends in Taiwan film production scene on two levels. One is its subject matter mentioned as above, Another is its narrative technigue Poetic Realism, against Social Realism commonly seen in recent Taiwan films At the beginning of the film, A-yi finishes his studies in the big city and returns to his home town, Meinong, a well-known Hakka village in southern Taiwan. A-jie, the best friend of A-yi, chooses to stay in Kaohsiung for the sake of a wild city girl, Little Chu. A-jie is a fan of Bruce Lee. He drowns himself in disco music and sexual relationship with Little chu in spite of the upcoming college entrance examination. In the meantime, when the tobacco harvest season begins in Meinong, A-yi come across U-mei, a tobacco-picking girl. Her kindness and cleverness attract A-yi immediately, They become close friends, caring and sharing their interests with each other. U-mei is not strong as a Hakka woman should be. But she never hesitates to do farm works. She dreams about going to the big city to get more education so that she can be equal to A-yi. A-yi is deeply moved by her innocence. Their affection grows each day while A-jie faces the fear of losing Little Chu. A-jie is falling in love with Little Chu. He did’nt expect this. But now he is ready to accept what’s happening. He wants to love Little Chu with heart instead of body. However, he wonders if she thinks the same way as he does. When the tobacco harvest season is over, A-yi and U-mei become closer and closer in spite of the disapproval of their families and the fact that A-yi had a crush on with U-mei’s second sister last winter. She promises to meet him again once he passes the college entrance examination,and they get together at last. Unfortunately leukemia is going to take her away again. He suffers from watching her fading away. A-jie the end of the film, death cruelly takes U-mei, and Little Chu leaves A-jie for no reason. A-jie finally realizes the true meaning of love. It is exactly what has happened between A-yi and U-mei. He failed the examination so he has to join the army. Before he leaves, he goes to see A-yi. Beside U-mei’s tomb, the two young men realize they’ve grown up. They are also aware that an age of innocence has gone forever along with U-mei’s death.
Casting: Guey-Mey YANG、Winston CHAO、Chian-Lian WU、Shiung LUNG、Yu-Wen WONG
Synopsis Trouble is brewing for old Mr. Chu, the greatest living chef of Taipei, and the father of three grown and rebellious daughters. It’s been years since. Mr. Chu’s wife died, leaving him to raise Jia-Jen, a school teacher seemingly devoted to her father, Jia-Chien, a driven executive who can barely stand her father’s company, and Jia-Ning, the youngest and most hopelessly romantic of the lot. Enter old Mrs. Liang, the nagging widow who’s just moved in next door, and suddenly the whole caln is wondering if Mr. Chu will soon be cooking for someone new…… But in the meantime, someone gets pregnant, someone else gets dumped, someone dies, and someone finds true love, and don’t be surprised to be completely surprised by what happens to whom! In this deliciously heart-warming comedy, director Ang Lee (THE WEDDING BANQUET) once again cooks up a feast of surprises and emotional twists, as traditional family ties come unraveled and marvelously knitted together again.
Synopsis Sylvia Chang, who stars in Ah Mon’s Queen of Temple Street, teams up with the director again, this time as producer and co-screenwriter. Tony Leung plays a young man with a history, returning from Hong Kong to his fishing village on an outlying island. His adolescent sister has befriended a group of city kids coming to the island every year for an ecologically correct summer she is starting to experience all the joys and sorrows that people her age are expected to experience. Spirited and refreshing, Three Summers is an ode to the fountain of youth.
Synopsis Wai-Tung Gao has made it in America – a sizeable4 bank account from shrewd real estate investments, a beautiful brownstone in Manhattan which he shares with his white lover Simon, citizenship, and ten thousand miles between himself and his parents in Taiwan, parents who are wondering why he hasn’t yet gotten married. Simon senses the underlying tension that nags at Wai-Tung each time he has to deal with his elderly parents’ pleas from abroad, and proposes a solution: marry Wei-Wei, a cute young Chinese artist who’s been illegally subletting one of Wei-Tung’s Soho apartments. She’s behind in her rent, more than a little flirtatious with Wai-Tung and desperate for a green card. A deal is struck, and Wei-Wei moves in while she and Wai-Tung study each other for the inevitable immigration interviews. Little did Wai-Tung think that his parents would get it into their heads to fly to America for the wedding… With the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Gao, what began as a white lie turns into a full-fledged farce. And soon what was to have been a simple City Hall ceremony is transformed into an enormous wedding banquet. With the house turned into a crowded hive of activity, each character begins to change: Wei-Wei begins to like her new in-laws; Simon, posing as a roommate who will soon be moving out, finds himself relegated to the background; and Wai-Tung, cornered in on all sides, grows more and more tense. The banquet turns out to be a wildly drunken affair, culminating in an all-night drinking party in the newlyweds’ hotel room where Wei-Wei makes a drunken lunge for her cute husband,… …and soon discovers that she’s pregnant. Wai-Tung is appalled. As is Simon, who takes the news to be one more sign of a failing relationship and considers moving out. As the tension rises to a boiling point, Mr. Gao suffers a mild stroke. In a hospital corridor, Wai-Tung finally comes out to his mother, who makes him swear that he won’t let his father know the true story, which, she says, would kill him. For Mrs. Gao, the news is a terrible tragedy, but even worse is Wei-Wei’s determination to have an abortion and go back to China. But on the day the abortion is scheduled, old Mr. Gao lets Simon in on a little secret of his own…
Synopsis Set in 1927, HILL OF NO RETURN depicts the experiences of gold miners during Japanese occupation of Taiwan. The film follows two brothers. Ah-Chu and Ah-Wei who have indentured themselves to a landlord in order to pay for their parents’ funeral. They soon escaped, to Gold Toad Mountain, the gold mine of northen Taiwan. They rent a small room from Ah-Jou, a widow who has lost two husbands within six years. To keep her children fed and clothed. Widow Ah-Jou even sells her body. Ah-Chu hates to see this woman humiliate herself in order to survive, and helps her from time to time. They fall in love gradually. Meanwhile, the gold rush has plunged the town into smuggling and prostitution. Japan’s attempts to “rehabilitate” the miners and prostitutes are met with resistance, However, the resistance only leads to disastrous consequences for both miners and prostitutes.
Casting: Chao-Jun CHEN、Yu-Wen WANG、Kang-Sheng LEE、Chang-Bin JEN、Tien-MIAO、Hsiao-Lin LU
Synopsis Hsiao-Kang decides not to participate in the college entrance examination. He takes a refund on his cram school tuition, and opts for the bright light of downtown Taipei. He comes across Ah-Tze, who he clearly remembers as the bike-riding vandal who once hit the family taxicab. Hsiao-Kang follows Ah-Tze and his girlfriend Ah-Kwei through the heavy rain to a hotel and quietly plots to haunt Ah-Tze’s beloved motorcycle. Ah-Tze discovers the limits of his luck; not only is his motorbike mysteriously destroyed, but his best friend, Ah-Bing is beaten up. And he has fallen in love with Ah-Kuei. But Hsiao-Kang’s fates are no better. His father has kicked him out for quitting school, and now he does not know where to go.
Synopsis “Pushing Hands” is a tai chi movement designed to balance the body when facing assault. “Pushing Hands” depicts the lives of Mr. chu and his only son who resides in the United States. Mr. Chu is a retired tai chi coach in mainland China. His wife was killed during the Cultural Revolution, leaving him to raise their only son, Alex. Alex grew up and received college education in the United States where the sought a better living for himself and his father as well. Alex has a son by his marriage with an American, Martha. Upon retirement, Mr. Chu travels to the U.S. to live with Alex’s family. However, Martha, who works at home as a writer, regards Mr. Chu as an “intruder.” Partly because of their language barrier, the two are unable to get along well with each other. As time progresses, their tense relationship deteriorates. Martha can hardly write with a peaceful mind at home. Her relations with Alex are strained because of her Chinese in-law. The family verges on breakup. One day Mr. Chu meets a widow who teaches cooking at the same Chinese language school where he taught tai chi to kill time. Mr. Chu seems to be very fond of Mrs. Chen, the widow. Alex takes the opportunity to try, and tye the matrimonial knot between his father and Mrs. Chen. A second marriage, Alex thinks, will help improve his father’s relations with Martha.But Mr. Chu is angered by Alex’s idea. Mr. Chu leaves home and earns a meager living by washing dishes at a nearby Chinese restaurant. Time and again, the restauranteur criticizes Mr. Chu for working too slowly. Mr. Chu finally loses his temper and stands up to his boss, who consequently fires him. In the ensuing melee, Mr. Chu knocks his boss to the kitchen floor and beats up five gangsters who had run to the aid of their boss. Over a dozen New York cops are called in to apprehend Mr. Chu and put him in jail. Alex bursts into tears upon seeing his father in jail. Despite his efforts to help his father escape his bitter life in mainland China, Alex realizes that they can no longer live together. On another front, the media coverage of the fighting at the Chinatown restaurant makes Mr. Chu into a well-known Kung Fu fighter. He now coaches packed classes at the Center for the Elderly in Chinatown to earn his own living, and he still enjoys dating with Mrs. Chen.
Casting: Jay KAO、Shen-Ni TOU、Yen-Ru CHENG、Shiang-Yun HOUNG、Shu-Fua JOU、Youn Fong LI
Synopsis Dolly – a lively, adorable little girl from the mountain region. Due to the death of her parents and having no relatives, she was sent to her parents close friend, Mrs. Chu’s care. As living environment and customs are different, when Dolly and her mini pig playmate, Guava, first came to Taipei, they brought a great change in the life of the Chu family and created a series of thrillinz amusing incidents. The Chu family loves Dolly very much as if their own, did their best for Guave; the only son of the Chu family, Chu Pi, accompanies Dolly to and from school everyday. As Dolly has to have Guava with her for company, it also added a lot of perplexity and upheaval to the school. Chu Pi has some very good classmates. They are Kao Kuai, Liao To, Liao Hao, Blue Angel, and Jou Tsung. One is more intelligent than the others and naughtier. Aside from going to school together ordinarily, the rest of the time they play and frolic together. When they learned that Chu Pi had a new sister and Guava the mini pig their life became magnificent. One day, Papa chu brought Guava to the office but negligently lost it. When Dolly heard that Guava got lost, she was very sad and decided to leave home to search for Guava. In order to help Dolly, Chu Pi called his buddies to join Dolly in the search for Guava. An interesting, worrying search journey by a group of children began. They followed the tract of the mini pig, from the baseball stadium to the market, supermarket, roads and streets, parks, airport, farms, construction sites empty houses, etc., the pig was taking a risk, the children were also taking a risk, but finally found Guava in the lake. – Could Guava Swim? Could Dolly Swim? What will happen to them? The film [DOLLY] will give you a satisfactory answer. Come and see [DOLLY’S CITY RISK] – a film full of joy, warmth, and emotion, guaranteed to give you the best memory.
Synopsis If your mother’s old flame suddenly proposed to you, what should you do? If your lover suddenly proposed to your daughter, what should you do? If a pair of father and son fall in love with one woman at the same time, what should they do? [ROUGE] is a love story describing the dispute between two pairs of mother and daughter crisscrossing three generations. The woman in the story who grew up in a single parent family is also an unwed mother – Chih Chun, a woman with strong character, daring and determined, independent and initiative, with fine feelings. Because of an immature love during her teens, she was forced to become a mother and father at the same time, armoring herself outside all emotions for the sake of her daughter and life, exertively fighting a space for herself. Chih Chun’s mother is a woman who after separating with her boy friend, escaped from Shanghai to Taiwan. Although she had gone through the ups and downs of being very rich and from suffering deprivation and hardship, it didn’t change her spoiled nature in Shanghai and continued seeking for happiness and well-being. The daughter of Chih Chun – Tao Tao, who has all the faults and good qualities of a young woman, has accumulated all the love of her grandmother and mother, and also the source of youth and happiness of this family. Although grandmother and mother’s love have made up for the lack of father’s love since growing up in a family without any man, but it seems this family was cursed by a certain incomplete love. When the old flame of the grandmother appears with his son, these pair of father and son who have graceful bearing and attractive disposition fall in love with all the women in this house, causing the already unstable foundation of this castle to shake, and a circle of entanglement began between the three generations of mothers and daughters’ love life. [ROUGE] is a story that has another explanation regarding love, intimacy, and friendship, at the same time brought up the critical and turning points of the single nobilities, single parent family, and unwed mothers in the modern metropolis.
Casting: Zhen ZHANG、Yang LISA、Guozhu ZHANG、Jin ELAINE、Ming Xu、Shujun NI
Synopsis Xiao Si’r, literally meaning the fourth child of the family, is a 14-year-old who has just entered junior high. His father, Zhang Ju, a middle-aged scholarly civil servant, reckoning his once promising career was not heading anywhere, pins his hopes on his five children (three daughters, two sons). Deeply influenced by his father’s humanistic idealism, XiaoSi’r also believes that the world can be bettered by human will and effort, and that one’s future can be shaped by one’s courage and faith. Nonetheless, having failed to win a place in Day School, Xiao Si’r has to settle for a place in the less prestigious. Night School of junior high. At school, Xiao Si’r’s closest buddies are Cat and Airplane, both members of the Little Park gang, a street gang named after a small local park, where the ice cream parlour is their hang-out. The gang membevs are all sons of civil servants living in the area. But the gang is in danger of falling apart. Its leader, Honey, has fled to southern Taiwan after killing a rival gang-leader in a fight over a girl named Ming. Xiao Si’r meets Ming for the first time one Saturday afternoon at the school clinic. Knowing that Ming is the girlfriend of the fugitive Little Park leader, Xiao Si’r carefully keeps his distance. Nevertheless, he still takes her to his favorite hiding place in the rafters of the nearby film studio. Because of Ming’s alleged associations with various neighborhood gangs, Xiao Si’r is hesitant to reveal his immediate irresistible liking for her. But Ming, driven by a growing sense of insecurity after Honey’s disappearance, shows her fondness for Xiao Si’r rather openly. Xiao Si’r’s involvement with Ming, however, leads him into the orbit of street-gang feud. The immediate trouble is the inevitable power struggle within the leaderless Little Park gang. Cat and Airplane suddenly find themselves sided disadvantagedly with Honey’s brother, Deuce, who is too wrapped up in rock’n’roll singing to concentrate on running the gang. Little Park’s arch enemy, the 217 gang—named after the military housing project where their families reside-plots to take over Little Park’s territory by offering alliance to Deuce’s arch rival and Little Park gang member, Sly, who is eager to become leader of Little Park gang. Disguised as a sailor, Honey returns from the south in desperation to repair damages, but finds the situation to be hopelessly irreversible. Disillusioned by the deterioration of traditional gang-work ethics, Honey decides to take on the entire 217s by himself. At a sell out rock concert with Deuce and Cat performing vocals as a supporting act, and the 217s sevving as bouncers at Sly’s invitation to celebrate his takeover of the Little Park gang, Honey unexpectedly shows up. His lonesome valor only proves to be suicidal. Shandong, leader of the 217s, tricks and pushes Honey under a passing truck. Ming who went back to Honey’s side upon his return to Taipei, collapses when she receives the news of his death. Inspired by Honey’s heroics, Xiao Si’r finds courage to tell Ming his intention of succeeding Honey in her heart. Distant, she rejects him flatly. His ensuing depression is eased by a new found friendship with Ma, a transfer student from a top military family, a reputed loner rumored amongst the street gangs to have killed a guy once. To avenge Honey’s death, Deuce turns to the all powerful Wanhua Market gang for help. The reprisal raid takes place on the night of a typhoon, with Xaio Si’r surprisingly called to take park. Both the 217’s favorite pool-hall hang-out and the ice-cream parlour where Sly frequents are hit. Shandong is found amongst the dead after the carnage. Sly, however, manages to escape with his life. When Xiao Si’r gets home that night, he learns that his father has been taken away for interrogation by the secret police for allegations of Communist involvement. Having braved widespread bureaucratic corruption stemming from his generation’s escalating disillusionment, Zhang finds his effort to retain dignity and integrity crushed by the grueling days and nights of questioning. His spirit broken and his career in ruins, Zhang suspects a betrayal by his closest friend Wang to be responsible for his plight. With the family being shrouded in gloom upon the release of a devastated father, Xiao Si’r cheers up when Ming returns to acknowledge their mutual affection. The social unacceptability of adolescent love affairs complicates into a head-on conflict with school officials, and Xiao Si’r’s father is summoned to school. His father’s appeal for clemency resulting in his open humiliation by the Conduct Dean, causes Xiao Si’r to explode with rage against the bureaucratic head. Xiao Si’r is expelled from school. Driven by a deep sense of pride to make up for the disgrace he brought to his family, Xiao Si’r resolves to enter the city’s best junior high. Preparing in earnest for the entrance exam, he even decides not to see Ming until his family honor has been restored. However, his concentration is disrupted as the rumor about Ming’s track record of being unfaithful to her boyfriends begins to surface. His optimism finally gives in when Sly, who disappeared after the massacre, turns up again to confirm the story about Ma dating Ming. Understanding perfectly that he is no match for a seasoned fighter like Ma, Xiao Si’r challenges Ma to a duel for which he is prepared to be killed, believing his death will bring about an awakening in Ming of her own honor. The duel never takes place, for Ma is scared off by Xiao Si’r’s determination. Instead, as Evening Class ends, Ming emerges from the school, and is surprised to find Xiao Si’r waiting beside Ma’s bicycle. On the evening when Xiao Si’r’s father’s career takes a hopeful turn, the family is shocked to learn from the police that their son had committed murder of a 14-year-old girl on her way home from school. Because he is a juvenile, his death sentence is commuted to 15 years of imprisonment. Two months later, Cat visits the prison with a gift for xiao Si’r: a tape with news about the letter he has received from Elvis Presley.
Synopsis A peasant woman, Chiu-Ching Lee. In order to have enough money for her son’s wedding, volunteers to sell herself into the remote mountains. Little did she know that she had been bought by as many as seven men, too poor to wed properly. Arriving at the mountains without expecting to marry seven husbands, and suffering from daily hardships and struggles with her seven husbands, she makes several futile attempts to escape. Slowly she begins to understand the live of her seven husbands. Her hatred and fear towards them gradually become sympathy. The selling of women is a mercantile activity often seen in Mainland China Nevertheless, it is an illegal act harboring the possibility of arrest and imprisonment. Living under the constant fear of being sent to the border provinces for political reform this alleged family attempts to win the favor of the local official by risking their lives to hunt down a tiger. Finally Lee and her husbands marriage ends in tragedy.
Synopsis “Honor Thy Father”. This is a book written by Wang Ten-mei, mother of Wang Chen-chih, the world renowned Japna-based Chinese baseball player. In the year 1927, Wang Ten-mei married a Chinese citizen Wang Shih-fu in the midst of then height of the social unrest. Two years later, they purchased a Chinese noodle house where three children were born to them. On May 10, 1940, Wang Chen-chih, the youngest son, was born in an awful health shape. He even couldn’t walk until he was two years old and looked awfully skinhy. His mother turned to a temple, praying for Buddha’s blessing. Wang Chen-chih was one of the twins. But in his early boyhood, another twin sister died. As the local felks believed, when one of the twins dies, the other could not possible live. Now, Wang Ten-mei had to visit both the Buddha temple and hospitals all the time. In his primary school days, Wang Chen-chih began growing taller and began playing baseball stealthily because his father disagreed. Shortly thereafter, when he was a first year student in sonior high school, he began winning widespread fames in the baseball circle. He wore No. 1 in the baseball games. Thanks to his extraordinarily outstanding performance, his baseball team won the championship. He further ascended the ladder of further success in the Giant Team. His name virtually became a household word the world over. He remained in the worldwide fames until he retired in the year 1981.
Synopsis It describes about a man, “Door Latch”, he followed the Government and moved to Taiwan in 1949. They concealed their real name and got many trials and afflictions to adapt the circumstances in the special environment. Yueh-Shiang is a classic woman in China country. For requiting the graciousness of saving life and under-standing of “Door Latch”, she recognized the fortune and suffered hardship to teach their children without any complains for her life. It’s very touching that “Door Latch” looked after his friend, Lee Der-Sherng, as his family. For his life, he took the place of another under false pretences to get a job. He suffered many difficulties and interesting things, but finally he could face the problem and solved it. They grew their children up in the hardship life. During this period, the Government spread the new circumstance. When the Government opened visiting parents to the China Mainland, they suffered a great stimulation. Finally the secret was discovered, they stood the sorrow and curbed the experience of their lifetime……
Synopsis FIRST DATE is a touching portrayal of an adolescent’s journey to self-discovery in the late 1950’s in Taipei, Taiwan. FIRST DATE is a gentle and humorous story of transition from childhood to adulthood; tradition to modernization; to the cultural encounter between East and West. Yang Jia Luo is a mischievous adolescent who attends a strict disciplinary high school. Bored and unchallenged at school, Jia Luo fantasizes about true love. Joining him in his exploits are his buddies, Mousie and Birdie. Armed with a stethoscope, they spend countless hours peeping on the neighbor, the beautiful sailor’s wife through a hole in the wall in Jia Luo’s room. To escape the ugly reality of his drunken would-be writer father and his unfaithful mother, Jia Luo struggles to better himself and dreams one day of becoming a novelist. Through time, Jia Luo develops a special relationship with his chemistry teacher and counselor, Mr. Liu. Nearly failing a semester’s worth of work, Mr. Liu becomes a mentor to young Jia Luo and more importantly, a source of inspiration. His inquisitiveness of the outside world is fed by the often incorrect tidbits he garners from his classmate, Yo Niao, a rich braggart and the son of a high ranking official. After Yo sets off an explosion in chemistry lab, Mr. Liu beats him for his carelessness. Yo is humiliated and after the incident, Mr. Liu vanishes from school. Jia Luo becomes suspicious of Yo’s – rather, his father’s – involvement with Mr. Liu’s absence. He seeks revenge by attempting to steal Yo’s girlfriend, the heavenly Ms. Jade Cloud Forest. FIRST DATE is a portrait of the complex emotions of youth and the simple pleasures of growing up.
Casting: Hsiao-Fen LU、Fu-Chien CHANG、Ching-T'ao MA
Synopsis The story depicts a dwarf who wanted to get married. Through the arrangement of his family, he was going to marry a girl, Peach. Peach rejected him in the beginning and gradually she was touched by his talents and thoughtfulness and finally accepted him. The dwarf’s age was about twentyish, a nice-looking, child-like man. He was very kind and usually he grazed the cattle and blew Suo Na, a Chinese brumpet in the funeral procession for a living. His family lived in a vallage where sugar cane was the main product. In this rather well-off family there were the parents, a brother, a sister and the dwart himself. Peach was born and grew up in the neighboring vallage and was usually busy with the work on the farm and in the house. Her father was a gambler, deep in debt. Once the creditors, some rascles, pushed her father to return the money and threatened that they would sell Peach to the whore house if her father can not return the money. The dwarf learned this and told his parents and his parents thought they could persuade Peach’s parents and let her marry the dwarf.
Synopsis In a sunny rain, the 17-year old Nan-sun Chiang and Chu Su su met each other while borrowing the umbrella. Nan-sun was born in a rather well-off family and Su-su was an orphan. Though living in different environments, their friendship was deeply rooted. Later, when they both met Chia-ming Sung, at the age of being unaware of love, they thought they could share Chia-ming’s friendship. Affter a short getting together, Chia-ming went back to Japan, While Nan-sun went on with his study and Su-su by mistake tell into the social circle. Five years went by. Nan-sun became a designer of a fashion company and Su-su became a renouned woman in the social world. Nan-sun met Chia-ming again. Nan-sun found that Chia-ming had fallen in love with Su-su but himself also wanted to get Su-su’s love. Finally, he found that he should not be so selfish and decided to bring Chia-ming to Su-su. When Su-su met Chia-ming again, she was about to marry the son of a King of Sea Liners, Mr. Hsie. They regretted for having met too late. For the promised marriage, Su-su had to leave Chia-ming and marry. Mr. Hsie reluctantly. Chai-ming, with a broken heart, went back to Japan. When they were 27 years old, Nan-sun had become a famous fashion designer in Hong Kong. Due to her unhappy nuptial life, Su-su went to Japan to sec Chia-ming and the spark of love flared up again. Su-su decided to give up everything for love. However, economic recession swept over Hong Kong and in order to help a Mr. Lee who ever helped herself, Su-su resolutely severed the love with Chia-ming and became a social butterfly again.
Casting: Hsiao-Fen LU、Ta-Hua JEN、Hsiu-Ling LIN、Feng-Sheng HU
Synopsis American Kid, Mouthless, Windowman and Red Hair were the ill-fated tour, 3 men and 1 girl, who had suffered from the bitter reality of the society. They then formed a grave digging group to steal money from the dead. American Kid was in charge of the main work, Mouthless and Windowman were the helpers and Red Hair was the gurad in the disguise of a ghost. Once they wanted to make a big deal when they learned that a rich man’s mother had just been buried and millions worth of valuables were buried together. After planning carefully, these four drove to the graveyard in the middle of the night. Opening the coffin they saw the valuables and they put them all in a bucket. American Kid want to look for Red Hair leaving the secne for Mouthless and Windowman to clear. When Red Hair and American kid were compassionately making love on the grass, three cow robbers, being frightened by Red Hair’s disguise as a ghost, came up indignantly and killed American Kid. Mouthless and Windowman came and dragged Red Hair into the car and drove off. Red Hair was sad and Windowman who once had an affair with Red Hair blamed sarcastically and the two tangled in a fight. Mouthless was holding the steering-wheel tight while an on-coming truck was driving near. However, one of the tires exploded and their car rammed into……… “THE SUONA PLAYER “The Late Spring” is mainly designed for the dramatic expression of characters and the rebellion of the leading actress is derived from her longing for love. Chuen Yen was a newly-widowed farm girl and under the old-fashioned social teaching, she was often oppressed by her memory of the old times. Under her mother’s arrangement, she remarried a Mr. Chiang, son of an officer in town. Chuen Yen’s purity and simplicity could not get herself accustomed to the new marriage and she often complained about being neglected. However, her longing for love made her fall in love with a young man who was her neighbor and was about the same age. They planned to run away. In 1916, China was in the transition period of monarchical and constitutional rules. Her husband used his ranking friend’s power to force away the young man and Chuen Yen was, bitterly beaten and locked up. The Mr. Chiang’s family reputation was thus saved without anyone’s knowing. In the dark room Chuen Yen spent 3 months for recovery and gradually accepted the practical life arranged by her mother and her husband. Her rebellious attitude was replaced by her charming appearance. Only unconsciously would Chuen Yen had her rebellion and uneasiness glimmer in her eyes.
Casting: Tao WANG、Yueh-Yun LIN、Wei-Hsin CHEN、Pa AN
Synopsis Story Synopsis of “When the Ocean Is Blue” Hsiao Tung and Hsueh are two very lovable brother and sister, but as their parents are determined to divorce, it brings about very great injury to them psychologically. Hsiao Tung and young aunt Lo Pi-Wen are very friendly, and Pi-Wen ofter tells nursery stories to Hsiao Tung, and before and after the divorce, Pi-Wen and her boy friend Hisao I-Heng just play the role of consoling these two brother and sister. On an occasion, Hsiao Tung and Hsueh Hsueh go to the home of Grandfather-in-law and Grandmother-in-law, at the seaside of Tanshui, the sea water is a piece of blue, and that is the happiest time for Hsiao Tung and Hsueh Hsueh. Young Aunt tells Hsiao Tung a story about “Lai Pao”, making Hsiao Tung deeply believe, if only he goes to be the son of the sea god, then it may save the crisis of his parents’ marriage. Finally, in the evening of Hsueh Hsueh’s birthday, Hsiao Tung promises Hsueh Hsueh to go to fined Mother, then he goes to the sea, never returning. Young Aunt henceforward never believes in marriage, and separates from her boy friend, and when her boy friend goes to the United States to study, she still stays in Taiwan alone, remembering Hsiao Tung, and writes a book for him known as “When the Ocean Is Blue”. Original Author: Liao Ching-Sung, Chang Man-Chuan Narrated by: Hsiao Yeh, Wang Tao, Lin Yueh-Yun, Chen Wei-Hsin, Pa An
Synopsis Wei Liang has married nine years, has a son and a daughter, and her husband Wei Yeh conducts the business of curios & furniture ornaments, and they live happily. In order to own such happiness, she worries about everything which may endanger the whole family, but only one thing she forgets to worry is the love of her husband to her. One day Wei Liang’s childhood playmate An Ping she has not met for many years suddenly appears, which brings about a cruel fact—Wei Yeh has extra-marital affairs, and the object is just An Ping’s younger sister An Ling, young, beautiful, wholeheartedly intending to become a dancing star, with a charming body. Wei Liang is determined to find An Ling for negotiation, and in the negotiation, An Ling expresses unwillingness to give up Wei Yeh, so Wei Liang angrily leaves home. But her mother’s home cannot accept her, so she goes to find An Ping to play cards, drink wine to relieve worry, but she cannot adapt to such dissolute life without purpose, and Wei Liang discovers herself having lost the power of adaptation for many years to the outside world except her husband and children, even the ability of earning a living. Finally she has no way to go, and she has only to return home. Wei Liang tries her best to restore her bushand’s general situation, and under unbearable circumstances, she again finds An Ling for negotiation, and as a result she only receives disgrace. One afternoon, Wei Liang brings her children to the store, finding Wei Yeh is not in, and she intuitively rushes to An Ling’s dancing society. Consequently she opens the door of the rest room, just seeing Wei Yeh lying in the bosom of sing inseparably who has attempted to commit suicide by cutting her wrist. Wei Liang knows she can never call back her husband’s heart. One evening, she puts some sedatives into the juice, and let her husband, children, and herself drink, and when the whole family are in deep slumber, Wei Liang pulls broken the gas pipe in the kitchen. In a coma, she only hears the gas bound of “Hsi Hsi”, and in her brain, the past story is tumultuous scene by scene.
