“Green Grass, Pale Fire” is a short film directed, produced, and edited by Yin-Yu Huang, who has previously produced and directed several anthropological documentaries. It premiered, along with Huang’s documentary “Green Jail”, at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021. Both films are based around the history of Okinawa’s Iriomote Coal Mine, which relied on enticing workers from mainland Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea with the promise of a tropical idyll, but instead the reality consisted of harsh working conditions and exploitation. Some of the miners risked their lives to escape and became lost in the jungle, and these runaways were known by locals as the ‘Pinginumu’.
Green Grass, Pale Fire is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Set in 1935, “Green Grass, Pale Fire” focuses on the attempts of three Taiwanese Pinginumu to survive the jungle and make good their escape. Instead they are condemned to become wandering ghosts in jungle of the Iriomote Island.
Green Grass, Pale Fire is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Set in 1935, “Green Grass, Pale Fire” focuses on the attempts of three Taiwanese Pinginumu to survive the jungle and make good their escape. Instead they are condemned to become wandering ghosts in jungle of the Iriomote Island.
- 3/14/2021
- by Adam Webb
- AsianMoviePulse
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