Winds of September
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Sheng Wei-nian
Rhydian Vaughan
Wang Bo-chieh
Chang Chieh
Chou Cheng
Frank Cheng
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Synopsis
In the ninth lunar month, a breeze sweeps the streets of Hsinchu, a small town west of Taipei. It murmurs of change, shaking the foliage of an old tree under whose branches a group of adolescents boys meet. Headed by the charismatic, heartthrob Yen, the high-school boys gather to read comics, talk about girls, and generally strengthen their already solid collective male bond. Recording the months preceding the boys' graduation in 1997, we witness the first Taiwanese game-fixing baseball scandal of those years as a metaphor for the boys' loss of innocence.
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Miscellaneous Notes
Feature directorial debut for Tom Shu-Yu Lin.
Shown at Pusan International Film Festival (Window on Asian Cinema) October 2-10, 2008.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Discovery) September 4-13, 2008.
35mm
color
dialogue Mandarin
