Starring a cast of Taiwanese and Japanese actors, Chih-yu Hung’s epic “1895″ opened recently in Taiwan, weighing in at a good 110 minutes. The film is being screened now Hakka and Japanese with Chinese and English subtitles.
The film is based on a Taiwanese novel by Li Chiao, and it tries to bring to life, in a kind of history lesson” way, the story of Taiwanese resistance to Japanese troops during the early Japanese occupation of Taiwan, which lasted from 1895 to 1945. The film should do well in Taiwan, and in Japan as well. How it will play overseas in North America and Europe is another question. And it will likely never be screened in communist China, according to sources.
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The film is based on a Taiwanese novel by Li Chiao, and it tries to bring to life, in a kind of history lesson” way, the story of Taiwanese resistance to Japanese troops during the early Japanese occupation of Taiwan, which lasted from 1895 to 1945. The film should do well in Taiwan, and in Japan as well. How it will play overseas in North America and Europe is another question. And it will likely never be screened in communist China, according to sources.
There’s a big battle scene, of course, in central...
(more...)...
- 11/10/2008
- by Danny Bloom
- ReelSuave.com
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