Haikak chhitho 2008 2h 9min comedy, drama, music 22 august 2008 taiwan a unusual group of people in a village on the coast of taiwan form a band to perform at a beach concert, while the lead singer searches for the intended recipient of 7 lost love letters. A bighearted letsputonashow comedy centered on a despondent musician who gets his mojo back with a band of eccentric amateurs in his provincial hometown, cape no. The film has won 15 awards to date, including 6 at the 2008 golden horse awards. List all drama taiwanese movies dramacool drama list. It reminds me a little of lowbrow cinema which isnt wrong or inherently bad, and there is an audience for that, ive just never been one of. Prior to this film, the two leading actors van fan and chie tanaka only had minor acting experience while some of. The films themes project how a lot of people in taiwan are feeling about wei. The film is in taiwanese and mandarin with significant lines in japanese. Tomoko is a japanese model assigned to organize a local warmup band for the japanese super star beach concert. The director wei teshengs long road to fame the new. It delivered where it mattered, and finished off very strongly. One day, a hotel in hengchun needs a local musical band to warm up, so they invite aga into the group.
Aga, a band singer, returns to hengchun with frustration. Synopsis the film is set in the present day in a small town in southern taiwan. Film tersebut berbahasa taiwan dan tionghoa mandarin dengan. Together with other five ordinary hengchun residents who were not expected to be. Together with five other ordinary hengchun residents with no hopes of fame, they form an unbelievable band. The bravados classic western, full movie, gregory peck, english free full western films duration. After ive finished writing a movie, ill consider some changes, thus. Cape no 7 earns a recommended tag from me, and its as feel good as you can get about a film and. Many feel the slump ended with the success of the 2008 film cape no. I believe the film would have done better if we focused on the band members lives instead of the.
Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing cape no. Its a movie about the unique history and modernized culture that made taiwan the taiwan today. The story is around aga, a singer leaves taipei to return to his hometown of hengchun. Many people are watching the film multiple times at the theater and the pirated version is popular too. Empty pusan international film festival, a window on asian cinema taipei, taiwan in wei teshengs cape no. Together with five other ordinary hengchun residents with no hopes of fame. The lost world and falling behind only two others titanic and jurassic park. The highest grossing local film in taiwans history, cape no. Check out this behind the scenes look at bad boys for life. Taiwan cinema through the lens of wei tesheng the news. Together with other five ordinary hengchun residents who were not expected to be great or.
If all taiwanese films are these campy, melodramatic and extremely corny, im not sure im a fan of taiwanese cinema. Before its commercial release, the film had its world premiere on 20 june 2008 at the 2008 taipei film festival as the opening film. On the other hand, taiwans film industry experienced serious setback. Many taiwanese audiences went to movie theaters to watch this film repeatedly. 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 such as hou hsiaohsien and. 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. Aga and tomoko put together a local warmup band for an upcoming japanese beach concert to be held in hengchun. There is another song in the movie performed by shino lin, a minor character in the movie. Taiwans lack of global recognition is due in a large part to the influence of china, which sees taiwan as part of its territory. This category is hidden on its member pagesunless the corresponding user preference is set these categories are used to track, build and organize lists of pages needing attention en masse for example, pages using deprecated syntax, or that may need to be edited at someones earliest convenience these categories also serve to aggregate members of several lists or subcategories into. Wang yulin and liu zijie, 2010, all performed solidly in the boxoffice. The film is in taiwanese and mandarin chinese with significant lines in japanese. Interestingly, their unfulfilled romance in 1945 was completed by two.