Many people are watching the film multiple times at the theater and the pirated version is popular too. Its a movie about the unique history and modernized culture that made taiwan the. In hengchun, tomoko is supposed to be getting a local warm up band together for a star studded japanese beach concert. A 2008 taiwanese romance comedic musicdrama film written and directed by wei tesheng, his first fulllength motion picture.
Shot on a shoestring and popularized by word of mouth, the film became one of the highest grossing ever to be shown in taiwan, second only to titanic. The film tries to be three different ones and not all those things gel together well. Dramacool will always be the first to have the episode so please bookmark and add us on facebook for update enjoy. This is a commercial film thats agreeable and unchallenging, and possesses standard characters and situations. The lost world and falling behind only two others titanic and jurassic park. The leads are charismatic enough but feel like theyre not given enough screentime, and the supporting characters are all entertaining and distinct even. In celebration of the centennial of the republic of china, the walter reade theater hosts a rare panorama of the eversurprising taiwanese cinema from the intimate looks at daily life in the early 1960s, to the breathtaking new wave of filmmakers that arose in the 1980s.
To coincide with the films plot about unsent love letters, the soundtrack is cleverly designed as a mail parcel printed with the cape no. Van fan chie tanaka kousuke atari rachel liang, wei tesheng. On 30 november 2008 the number of copies ordered in advance had reached 23,000, far surpassing the runnerup record holder in taiwans cinematic history, the lion kings 12,000 reservations in 1995. Ostensibly a romcom with music this film without major stars became the bestselling local film in contemporary taiwanese cinema as audiences embraced its mix of genre and local historynostalgia. Its a movie about the unique history and modernized culture that made taiwan the taiwan today. Aga gets a group of locals together, who each had low expectations of themselves and each other, to form an awesome rock band, while delivering.
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