Starring musician Chang Chen-yue張震嶽/Ayal Komod海雅谷慕, this is one of the few films of Taiwan’s famed New Cinema movement to consider indigenous Taiwan. Director Wan Jen hauntingly explores intersections of the afterlife and daily struggle in a gritty and lonely fin de siècle Taipei.

Best Music, Asia Pacific Film Festival (1998)

1998, 1h53m, PG
Directed by Wan Jen 萬仁

This screening is part of the Taiwan Film Festival 臺灣電影節 2017: Indigenous Representations and Responses 原民現身與迴聲. 

All screenings are FREE and open to the public, but bookings are essential. All films have English subtitles.

This film is generously provided by the Taiwan Cinema Toolkit.