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The Strait Story

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2005-10-211h 46m

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The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back home before leaving for China. He boards the passenger liner "Takachiho Maru" in Kobe, Japan, with his girlfriend, a pianist. Tragically, the luxurious liner is torpedoed by an American submarine and sinks off the coast of Keelung, Taiwan. Decades later, Shou-shou, a fine art restorer with a crippling illness, finds one of Huang's paintings in an exhibition. As she restores the painting, Shou-shou learns about the artist, the stories behind his work and his death at sea. She recreates the story of the painting "Woman in Black", and romantically imagines the ways the artist painted his girlfriend. The more she studies, the more she was inspired by Huang's value of art and of life. Restoring Huang's painting thus becomes Shou-shou's way of ...

Directors
Huang Yu-Shan
Writters
Huang Yu-Shan

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  1. Freddy Lim

    Freddy Lim

  2. Janine Chang

    Janine Chang

  3. Yuki Hsu

    Yuki Hsu

  4. Jag Huang

    Jag Huang

  5. Bing-Chen Chen

    Bing-Chen Chen

  6. Ding-ya An

    Ding-ya An

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Status
Released
Original Language
Chinese
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Revenue
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Keywords
painterching-cheng huang