Super Citizen Ko
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Wan Jen
Lin Yang
Su Ming-ming
Chen Yen-chiu
Hsing Feng
Wu Nien-chen
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A look at Tawain's White Terror of the '50s--the "verboten period" in which the city suffered severe unrest and instability due to KMT anti-commie witch hunts, Japanese colonization, U.S. colonization, and other threatening socio-poltical pressures which eventually led to a national "identity crisis" for the Taiwanese citizenry. The story is told through the travails of a recently released, elderly ex-con, Ko, who had been imprisoned for leftist activity. Thusly, Ko embarks upon a mission to track down the grave of and pay respect to an old collegue--his former best friend Chen, who died of questionable circumstance. Ko's odyssey not only charts painful memories of political turmoil, but also unearths broken family relationships, rendered irreparable, resulting from this murky period in his own country's history.
Director
Wan Jen
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Taiwan's official entry for the 1995 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Shown at 19th Asian American International Film Festival July 19-21 & 25-28, 1996.
Shown at Tokyo International Film Festival September 22 - October 1, 1995.
Shown in New York City (Walter Reade Theater) as part of program "Made in Taiwan 2: Cutting-Edge Cinema" September 13-23, 1996.
color
Dolby
dialogue Mandarin, Hokkien and Japanese
